Listening for Lions
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mtoto: child
mzimu: dead person
ngoma: a ceremonial dance
nina itwa: I am called
nozuri: wondrous
panga: a broad-bladed knife
popo: bat
posho: maize porridge
shamba: farm
sobai (Masai): good morning
tumaini: hope
uhuru: freedom
wasiwasi: worries, troubles
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Listening for Lions is a work of fiction, but I am especially indebted to Dr. C. Albert Snyder for sharing reminiscences of his years as a missionary physician in Rwanda, Africa. When Dr. Snyder and his wife, Louise, first went to Kibogora hospital in Rwanda in 1968, it was a 40-bed rural clinic. It is now a 175-bed full-service medical center with two surgeries, outpatient clinics, and a maternity and nursing school. Dr. Snyder retired in 1990, but in April 1993 a surgeon was needed at Kibogora and Dr. Snyder and his wife returned to Rwanda, only to be forced to leave in the wake of the brutal uprising that killed hundreds of thousands of Rwandans. In 1994 he again returned to Kibogora hospital. A journal of those years and of his struggle to be a missionary doctor in the most challenging of circumstances appears in his book, On a Hill Far Away.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following books were especially helpful:
Amidon, Lynne A. An Illustrated History of the Royal Free Hospital. London: The Royal Free Hospital, 1996.
Bell, E. Moberly. Storming the Citadel: The Rise of the Woman Doctor. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1953.
Dinesen, Isak. Letters from Africa, 1914–1931. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Snyder, C. Albert. On a Hill Far Away: Journal of a Missionary Doctor in Rwanda. Indianapolis, Ind.: Light and Life Press, 1995.
White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. London: Oxford University Press, 1789.
Zimmerman, Dale A., et al. Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
About the Author
GLORIA WHELAN is the bestselling author of many novels for young readers, including HOMELESS BIRD, winner of the National Book Award; FRUITLANDS: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect; ANGEL ON THE SQUARE; BURYING THE SUN; ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; and RETURN TO THE ISLAND. She lives in the woods of northern Michigan.
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Cover art © 2005 by Brett Helquist
Copyright
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