Publisher: Njoya Foundation - £8

I thoroughly enjoyed this travel writing works of the late Christian Small, as he depicts tales of his travels and community work throughout West Africa. The book is compiled from entries in his diary and emails to friends sent from his base in Ghana, and from there he travelled to the Ivory Coast, and Mali. There were comical moments as well as it being educational on the histories of particular places.
His writing conjured up the scenes vividly; the tastes, (old chicken, porcupine meat,) the colours, (bright cloths of the peoples' garments), and the smells. Christian crammed in so much, and makes brief mention of the voluntary work he undertook while on his travels.

What was deeply moving is knowing Christian's young life was cruelly taken away in the London 7:7 bus bombing (by what were led to believe were terrorists) when we read that he had a close call after he missed his last Tro-tro bus to Tetrefu and later saw the same bus crashed and overturned in the road.
This is a must read for anyone about to venture on a trip to West Africa. In tribute to Christian, and support of the Njoya Foundation, have it as your next book club read. If Christian had been alive today, I'm sure he would have had a promising writing career ahead of him, as this was an excellent first book.