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Joan Baxter

Books By Joan Baxter

“The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” (Pottersfield Press, 2017)

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Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa

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Dust from our eyes: An unblinkered look at Africa

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The Hermit of Gully Lake: The Life and Times of Willard Kitchener MacDonald

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A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal

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Strangers Are Like Children: Stories of Africa

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Graveyard for Dreamers: One Woman’s Odyssey in Africa

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About me

Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, development researcher, anthropologist, and award-winning author with more than three decades of international experience, much of it on the African continent.

Recent Posts

  • Undermining climate progress and democracy the Carney way
  • ‘Red flags about ‘green’ hydrogen and its purported role in tackling the climate crisis
  • As Northern Pulp dies, a big chunk of Nova Scotia is for sale. The government should buy it back
  • Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of our roads are dangerous, threatening lives and living environments (Part 3)
  • Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of the roads are dangerous, threatening lives and living environments (Part 2)

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