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Recommended English books written by authors from Togo (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Togo for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

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An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Togo flag Togo
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Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.
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Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Togo flag Togo
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Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja's harrowing story begins in Togo, Africa, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood, shielded by her progressive father from the tribal practice of polygamy and genital mutilation. But when her father died in 1993, Fauziya's life changed dramatically. At the age of seventeen, she was forced to marry a man she barely knew who already had three wives, and prepare for the tr... continue
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