About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Swahili-language films, Swahili literature, Swahili words and phrases, Kwanzaa, The African Queen, Out of Africa, Afro Asians, Ushahidi, Bao, Phone Booth, Askari, George of the Jungle, Jenga, Kanzu, Hakuna matata, Ujamaa, Utendi wa Tambuka, Nowhere in Africa, Liongo, Kanga, Soul Boy, Mzungu, Zanzibari cuisine, Safari, The Storm, Miombo, Maneno, Maangamizi: The Ancient One, Milking the Rhino, Harambee, Genge, Kofia, Besieged, Shirazi Era, Mwana Kupona, Gomesi, Mitumba, Karamu, Lost Boys of Sudan, Bisht, Majitu, Makunduchi, Wahuni, Unyago, Bongoland, Kidumbaki, Ndiyo, Uhuru, Swahili calendar, Unguja Ukuu, Nyota, Taifa Leo, Ngalawa, Qur'ani Tukufu. Excerpt: Out of Africa is a 1985 adventure drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The story based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of the author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards (see below: Awards and honors). The book describes events during the period from 1914 to 1931 concerning the European settlers and the native people in the bush country of Kenya (in British East Africa). Its setting spans from seaside at Mombasa up to Nairobi, and from Mount Kenya to Kilimanjaro, as told from the lyrical, poetic viewpoint of Danish Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book was continually in print during the 20th century, and it has been reprinted by many publishers, and in several different languages. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Its stars were Streep as the Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke; Redford as Denys Finch Hatton; and...
