28: Stories of Aids in Africa
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For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.In every instance, Nolen has borne witness to the stories she relates, whether riding with truck driver Mohammed Ali on a journey across Kenya; following Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy fourteen-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; chronicling the efforts of Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi; or interviewing Nelson Mandela's family about coming to terms with his own son's death from AIDS. Nolen's stories reveal how the disease works and spreads; how it is inextricably tied to conflict and famine and to the diverse cultures it has ravaged; how treatment works, and how people who can't get treatment fight to stay alive with courage and dignity against huge odds.Imagine the entire population of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined infected with HIV, and its magnitude in Africa is clear. Writing with power and simplicity, Stephanie Nolen makes us listen, allows us to understand, and inspires us to care. Timely and transformative, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humankind.Click here to learn more about Stephanie Nolen and her book, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa.Click here to listen to an interview with author Stephanie Nolen, as she talks about some of the people she has met covering AIDS in Africa. Publishers Weekly According to UNAIDS, the number of HIV-infected people in Africa is 28 million. But Nolen, veteran Toronto Globe & MailAfrica bureau chief, doesn't believe it: after nine years of reporting on the epidemic, she thinks that number is conservative. Here she offers 28 searing portraits of Africans affected by the deadly virus. Scattered across the continent from the slums of Lagos, Nigeria, to the bush in southern Zambia, these Africans present a mosaic of a continent in crisis and a collective cry for help. She examines the role of soldiers, a "key vector" for AIDS, through the tale of Andualam Ayalew, a commando who was kicked out of the Ethiopian army after testing positive for HIV. He learned of AIDS prevention at a clinic and, risking arrest, returned to his unit to teach his former comrades and other soldiers about using condoms. Agnes Munyiva, a prostitute for 30 years, who has had contact with thousands of men in a slum outside Nairobi, Kenya, does not have HIV. Her natural immunity has brought doctors and researchers from as far away as Canada to study her.With a seasoned journalist's finesse, Nolen effortlessly weaves technical information health statistics, disease data, NGO reports into these deeply intimate glimpses of people often overlooked in the flood of contemporary media. Nolen's book packs a real emotional wallop. Photos, map. (June)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Why 28 1Siphiwe Hlophe 19Tigist Haile Michael 31Mohammed Ali 41Prisca Mhlolo 52Regine Mamba 67Lydia Mungherera 73Noe Sebisaba 83Christine Amisi 99Manuel Cossa 113Cynthia Leshomo 125Mfanimpela Thlabatse 137Andualem Ayalew 141Alice Kadzanja 155Zackie Achmat 167Lefa Khoele 187Pontiano Kaleebu 197Winstone Zulu 211Agnes Munyiva 225Mpho Segomela 239Anne Mumbi 243Gideon Byamugisha 257Ida Mukuka 269Anita Manhica 277Morolake Odetoyinbo 289Moleen Mudimu 297Ibrahim Umoru 309Nelson Mandela 313Thokozani Mthiyane 331Epilogue 347Glossary 353How You Can Help 359Bibliography 363Acknowledgments 367Index 369
