title: African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
author:  Kuki Gallmann 
description: Gallmann's collection of true stories of her life in the Kenyan Highlands reads like a novel. One story flows into the next as Gallmann writes of her interactions with the Kenyan people, other European farmers, and African animals. Central to the stories are the customs and rituals of the Kenyan tribes: the offering of cattle for courtship of a daughter, rain dances, sacrifices to gods and spirits, and female circumcision. Gallmann, an Italian, fell in love with Africa 30 years ago and has since made Kenya her home. These stories examine what Africa has given her, but the author also writes of what the land has taken away: her husband, Paolo, died in a car accident and her son, Emanuele, died of a snakebite. The triumphs and hardships of a passionate life are in these stories, set against the spiritual and mysterious African culture. By publishing these stories and selling her first novel to Hollywood, she hopes to bring the environmental issues so crucial to Africa's future to the world's attention. This is wonderful adventure reading. <i>Michelle Kaske</i>
zlib_text: Dream Life and Real Life A Little African Story
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  Dream Life and Real Life
  A Little African Story
  by Olive Schreiner
  
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  Author of "The Story of an African Farm" and "Dreams"
  Dedication.
  To My Brother Fred,
  For whose little school magazine the first of these tiny stories--
  one of the first I ever made--was written out many long years ago.
  O.S.
  New College, Eastbourne, Sept. 29, 1893.
   
   Kopjes - In the karoo, are hillocks of stones, that rise up singly or in
  clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance of
  old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands. Kraal - A
  sheepfold. Krantz - A precipice. Sluit - A deep fissure, generally dry, in
  which the superfluous torrents of water are carried from the karoo plains
  after thunderstorms. Stoep - A porch.
  
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  I.  DREAM LIFE AND REAL
  LIFE; A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY.
  Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush.  Before