Interesting editorial in today's New York Times which feeds into my earlier discussion about international aid: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/opinion/02fri1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
A couple of months ago I read "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth," a book about the experiences of 3 UN workers in Cambodia, Rwanda, Somalia and Haiti during the early to mid '90s. The current "it" book among expats (although it was published more than 3 years ago) and while perhaps a bit overly dramatic at time, I highly recommend reading it to understand what it is like to work in not only a third world country but also a disaster area.
Other good African literature that I have read while here: "Acts of Faith" by Philip Caputo, "The Constant Gardener" by John Le Carre, "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch and "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah. I am working my way through others (with American and classic literature supplements) and will be sure to update this list as the year progresses.
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