Dust from our Eyes: An unblinkered look at Africa
by Joan Baxter
October 2008
427 pages | ISBN: 978-1-894987-30-1
$19.00

Part memoir, part adventure tale, part political thriller - a compelling read that dissolves stereotypes and exposes paradoxes about Africa. Joan Baxter draws on more than two decades of living in and reporting from Africa to reveal that there is more to the continent than poverty and suffering, and far more to Western involvement than benevolent charity. Alternately funny, chilling, moving and disturbing, Dust from our Eyes is a fast-paced, passionate narrative told with journalistic accuracy and anthropological acumen. Watch the author's YouTube video describing this book about the paradoxes in Africa.

Dust Photo Gallery
And now you can see pictures taken by Joan in our new photo gallery dedicated to the book here.

Reviews

• Review (themeasles.org, 4/6/2010)
• Exposing Western Neocolonialism in Africa: People, land, environment devastated by corporate plunder (Judy Kennedy, The CCPA Monitor, 8/1/2009)
• Exposing Western Neocolonialism in Africa: People, land, environment devastated by corporate plunder (Judy Kennedy, The CCPA Monitor, 8/1/2009)
• Member Reviews (P Marshall, Library Thing, 4/11/2009)
• Canadian rails at injustice in Africa (Adelia Neufeld Wiens, Winnipeg Free Press, 12/28/2008)
• Compelling look at Africa (Joseph Howse, The Chronicle Herald, 11/23/2008)

Other Titles by Joan Baxter

• Dust from our Eyes: An unblinkered look at Africa, Second Edition (2010)

Downloads

Dust from our Eyes Sampler.pdf
Download the Introduction to Dust from our Eyes: An unblinkered look at Africa. Watch the YouTube video linked above for more information from the author.

Joan Baxter.mp3
Joan Baxter speaks with Rick MacInnes-Rae on the CBC radio show Dispatches. Check out Dispatches for more info.