Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope
Princess Kasune Zulu
Belinda A. Collins (Contributor)

After AIDS/HIV left her orphaned, Princess Kasune Zulu raised her six siblings alone and eventually tested HIV positive herself. Despite these challenges, Zulu decided early on with God’s help to be a victor and not a victim. That decision would send her on a journey to advocate for orphans, vulnerable children and those suffering from HIV and AIDS which has lead from the villages of Zambia to the United Nations and beyond. This book is her hopeful and healing story.

Black Death: AIDS in Africa
Susan Hunter

This is a great primer on AIDS in Africa by one of the world’s foremost experts on orphans and vulnerable children.

An African Awakening: My Journey Into AIDS Activism
Valerie Bell

Bell provides a useful guide in understanding the critical issues pertaining to global AIDS. On a deeper level, An African Awakening is an essential companion if compassionate response is a life-long goal.

White Man Walking
Ward Brehm

An American Businessman’s intriguing vision of traveling an African
journey; his pursuit to discover the heart of Africa changed his life forever.

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Stephanie Nolen

According to UNAIDS, the number of HIV-infected people in Africa is 28 million. Nolan has reported on the epidemic for nine years and she thinks that number is conservative. Here she offers 28 searing portraits of Africans affected by the deadly virus.

Dangerous Surrender
Kay Warren

Interwoven with the inspiring story of her growing involvement in fighting the AIDS pandemic is a beautiful description of her spiritual journey.

The White Man’s Burden
William Easterly

A former World Bank economist cites that the $2.3 trillion in aid sent to Africa since the 1950s had done nothing to increase Africa’s GDP. He then argues that alternative, pinpointed aid tactics can succeed only if they use local knowledge and implementation.

Children of AIDS: Africa’s Orphan Crisis
Emma Guest

“Deadlier than war, deadlier than tyranny, deadlier than even malaria, AIDS is silently tearing Africa apart,” writes Guest in the preface to this riveting account of a continental plight the world has not sufficiently considered. Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, refrains from discussing how adults battle with and die from the disease and instead concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic: the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Often subjective and rarely conforming to the rigors of social science research, Guest’s work fuses the case-study method with a flair for storytelling, attacking the real problems by drawing inspiration from the stories of real people. She also investigates the social, political, and economic forces at work in the ongoing struggle to keep the disease from spreading. This much-needed perspective is recommended for public and academic libraries.” Edward K. Owusu-Ansah, Coll. of Staten Island Lib., CUNY

Half the Sky: Turning Opression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

The authors have been journalists for years. As a married couple, they covered the Tiananmen massacre and were appalled by the dramatic loss of human life. But as they continued their work in developing countries, they discovered that the most dreadful suffering happened in the daily lives of poor, mostly village women. These Pulitzer Prize-winning authors see the treatment of women in developing countries as the great story of this century, a moral issue, sure, but also as an economic one.