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African Ways Again: More recollections of life in South Africa (The African Ways series Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Valerie Poore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
This is the sequel to African Ways. It tells what happened next in Valerie Poore's life in South Africa's rural Kwa-Zulu Natal in the 1980s. More bittersweet than the first book, Val and her family move down the mountain from the farm where they spent the three happy years described in African Ways. In this second book, life changes dramatically for the author and her small daughters, but the anecdotes she shares are still filled with colour, humour and everything that she loves about Africa and its people.
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    The African Ways series
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    144 pages
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  4. Publication date
    January 27, 2018
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079DCZLK7
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 27, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.9 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 259 ratings

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Valerie Poore

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Val Poore was born in London, England, and grew up in both north London and the west of Dorset. After completing her degree in English, History and French at Bournemouth, she took a further course in the conservation and restoration of museum artefacts at Lincoln College of Art. She then spent two years smallholding, rearing Jacobs sheep and doing furniture restoration before going to South Africa in 1981 with her husband and small children.

Val left South Africa permanently in 2001 and has settled in the Netherlands, where she shares her time between a liveaboard barge in Rotterdam and a cottage in Zeeland. She has been writing since childhood and wrote stories, articles and radio plays for years before embarking on her first book in 2005. Val loves travelling on her barge, especially when it involves roughing it a bit. She feels that she has better adventures and more interesting experiences that way.

She has written twelve books altogether: three novels and nine memoirs, three of which are about her life in South Africa, a country she grew to love deeply. The others are all about her experiences of living and cruising on her barge. The latest is being published in May, 2021. Then it'll be back to writing some more fiction. Val writes under her full name Valerie Poore.

For more about Val's daily life on board her barge in Rotterdam, go to https://rivergirlrotterdam.blogspot.nl

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  • PS Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully written memoir
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2019
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    When Val Poore releases a new book, I put it on top of my huge pile of to be reads. This book touched me in so many ways. Val has a talent of writing words that become a painting in my mind's eye. The way she describes her life in South Africa during apartheid and then the aftermath is part happy and part heartbreaking. That said, I have my favorite stories. I love how she calls herself a plum pimp. I laughed at her methods of trying to give away the abundance of plums from her fruit tree to any and all who also had their own flourishing tree. Another favorite story was when her pre school daughters would bicker in the backseat of their van. This time it hit home with me as I laughed with my own memories when I did exactly the same thing she did to stop her children from bickering. And, Val, if you are reading this, many times my two children were told to sit on their hands when mommy was driving. I also learn something new from her books. But, I also while reading them, I feel like a friend visiting a friend in her kitchen, sipping tea or coffee, and enjoying a nice visit.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Makes you want to move to Africia
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018
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    Enjoy Val's books thus far however, just sampled Watery Ways and am beyond confused as to how this would be the next? in Val's series of memoirs. She skipped the return to Africa and what the heck happened with her marriage? I may be missing something, but I want to know what happened after African Ways Again. African Ways Again really showed the strength Val has as a woman making the right decisions for her children, who seem to thoroughly enjoy their life. Would like more details on how does she feel around some of the difficulties she has gone through.
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  • Lynn M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life Cycles!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018
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    Val Poore takes us on another warm adventure of her South African years in the mid-80’s. Her family moves from the peace of the farm to Byrne and ultimately on to Richmond. Every word makes us feel the vibrations of everyday life on the countryside from the antics of using an antiquated phone to the break–down of old cars as she courageously transports her girls from place to place.
    I could see the shopping sprees in the local village at Speedway and visualize the Zulu mothers balancing their sleeping children along with their groceries on top of their heads. I could feel Val’s anxiousness as she interviewed for her first full-time job in Richmond after becoming a single parent and I felt her embarrassment when her little girls decided to break and enter into a locked-away room to explore their landlady’s secret treasures.
    There are so many astonishing pieces to this sequel to African Ways yet as in life, all good things must come to an end. There were signs that this cycle of peace was about to change and Val and her family read the warnings and moved on while they were still filled with many precious memories of South Africa!
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  • fabulouschrissie
    5.0 out of 5 stars More African Adventures
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
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    I love all of Val's books. I've read all her Watery Ways books, and was curious about her life before she moved to the Netherlands. Well, African Ways filled in a lot of the gaps, and now we get a sequel to continue her African adventure. Life has moved on, away from the farm where she and her family spent their first few years. As the children are growing up they move to a small town which has a lot of the conveniences we take for granted - plentiful running water and electricity - which they didn't have on the farm. But the drawback is moving away from the close friends they had made there. This is a delightful book, I really love Val's writing style, and you can imagine the life she describes so well. I'm hoping that we will get to share another slice of Val's life very soon. I recommend this book to anyone interested in Africa, and anyone who really enjoys a good, well written story.
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  • Laurie
    5.0 out of 5 stars A warm and bittersweet return to KwaZulu Natal
    Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018
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    I absolutely adored African Ways so was very happy when the author wrote a follow up.
    I often wondered what happened after Val, her husband and two daughters moved off the mountain down into the small town of Byrne.
    I loved how easily the author eases you through the roller coaster of what happens in her life, and this part of Africa, after life on the mountain. You can't help but feel somewhat sad for Val, but she pulls herself up by the bootstraps and carries on through the 'muck' .
    Told with warmth , charm and rich descriptions of the country.
    It's been a dream of mine since I was a child to visit Africa and reading Val's love for KwaZulu, I can see why I have felt the yearning.
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  • Jozanne Oosthuizen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2019
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    Loved reading about Valerie and her family in Richmond. So many stories that I could relate to. An easy read and I will definitely be moving on to her next one
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  • ruth schwantje
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018
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    well written and entertaining.
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  • Colin P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vignettes of family life in 80s rural South Africa - a great read!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018
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    I was really happy to see that Val Poore had published her sequel to the excellent “African Ways”. The format has changed with each chapter being a separate memory of the family’s life in rural Natal, South Africa. Val has continued with her detailed, humorous and sometimes sad life of day to day life in a changing, domestic, political and work life for the family including the pet animals. The book is fast flowing and I felt I was a family friend watching from the sidelines the ups and downs, likes and dislikes of the family friends. Well done Val, I thouroughly enjoyed your book.
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  • Louise Davis
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great sequel to African Ways
    Reviewed in Spain on April 29, 2020
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    This book carries on the tale of life in South Africa. Amusing at times, sad at others. The author relates a period of personal upheaval and her troubled life and mind can be perceived along with her determination. She manages to cope and to offer her children as many activities as possible. With a troubling political background the family fortunately avoid having to witness the unrest. Yet again the reader wishes to know more and follow the author in her next stage of the journey.
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  • Robert Fear
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet moments
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2021
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    This memoir recalls the three years following the wonderful experiences in African Ways, when the author’s family had lived in the Drakensberg mountains. In this well-written sequel, circumstances were noticeably different, with the family having moved to the urban areas of Byrne and then Richmond.

    Gone were the days of joy and freedom from the countryside. Life became harder for many reasons. The author had to find full-time work to survive and look after her two young girls as they started their educational journey. In Natal, apartheid had not been an issue, but in the towns and cities its insidious influence was more obvious. South Africa was changing, and this book documents the transition from innocence to unrest and violence.

    Val Poore delayed writing this book for over ten years after publishing the first. She felt after the happy times her family experienced in the mountains, that her more bittersweet moments during this period would not interest readers. I am so glad that friends persuaded her to write this book. It was both fascinating and educational.
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  • John M Taylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Courageous
    Reviewed in Australia on July 20, 2023
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    This is the second in a series of memoirs of a courageous lady and her two small daughters as they survive the trials and upheavals in Natal, South Africa, in the early 1980s. Having moved there from Dorset in England with her husband and daughters, she is abandoned and left to fend for herself and her children in this alien land.
    This account is simultaneously specific to the atmosphere, landscape, and amazing people. It addresses the themes that are central to human beings' lives at the time apartheid was being violently dismantled. Yet the kindness and understanding she encounters, from all races, is heartening. It left me pondering the clash of political ideology and reality, and humanity.
    Having lived in Natal myself in part of this era, I can vouch for Val Poore's authenticity with admiration. A wonderful, inspirational read. Thank you, Val Poore.
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  • Shelley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great follow up to African Ways
    Reviewed in Australia on April 28, 2019
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    Love reading people’s stories about their lives in Africa. Especially when I can picture where they live and the places they visit.
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  • Diana D
    4.0 out of 5 stars Love
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2020
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    Love Val's easy writing style, and descriptions of people and scenery. Difficult moving house and starting work at the same time. I don't like the venomous snakes! Loved the Cannon Ball Run! I like the history of Byrne, and love Father Muller. A good insight into how poor most South Africans are. Liked the tales of office work and colleagues. Extremes of weather are harsh, and even hair-raising! Loved the service at the garage and supermarket. What a fabulous choice of music! Book exchange is a lovely idea. Such a shame conflicts arose between the different S. African peoples.
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