Zambian Dambisa Moyo became famous when she wrote Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa, a book arguing that aid harmed Africa and that it should be phased out. Since then she has written two more books; How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly […]
Book: Through My African Eyes Author: Jeff Koinange Publisher: Footprints Press Kenya Year of Publication: 2014 Genre: Biography I have been watching Jeff Koinange for years. I started watching him when he was working for KTN in 1995 when he would read the news. I also watched him on Africa Review, the Reuters show that […]
Ken Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. He died at the hands of some very bad men running the government of Nigeria in 1995 when he was led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters […]
Book: Invisible Author: Kevin Mwachiro Publisher: Native Intelligence and Goethe Institut Nairobi Number of pages: 111 Year of publication: 2013 In which I review Invisible by Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro which gives tales from Kenya’s queer community. Our friendly neighbour President Yoweri Museveni this week signed a new bill making homosexuality a criminal offence […]
Not everyone can write fiction. That’s not really a bad thing if you think about it as there are other forms of expressing yourself in the written word like memoir, literary reportage, essays et al. For those who want to get into that part of the writing game then the Commonwealth Short Story Prize cats […]
If you are Kenyan educated then you must know the name Malkiat Singh. He is the guy who has written over 100 books that are used as textbooks in Kenyan schools. It has emerged that the writer has sold off the rights to all of his books to Longhorn Publishers for Kshs83 million – I […]
South African writer Zukiswa Wanner emerged onto the South African literary space in 2006 with her thought provoking book The Madams. It was about a character who is black and opts to have a white maid (in Kenya we call them house helps) and the drama that goes with it all. It was an insightful […]
Dr Julius King’etich is currently the chief operating officer of the Equity Bank the biggest bank in Kenya by customer base. He has also stints at as a professor in the University of Nairobi as well as at the Kenya Investment body. It is however his stint at the Kenya Wildlife Services that he will […]
We have all heard of Martin Oduor-Otieno on these East African shores especially if you are interested in big business and specifically in banking. He came to national prominence when he was ‘plucked” from Barclay’s Bank to be in the “dream team” of technocrats who worked with the then Secretary to the cabinet Richard Leakey […]
Just after being appointed the chair of the new Etisalat Prize for African writing Wits University professor Pumla Gqola’s latest book A renegade called Simphiwe is now in South African stores. The book is set to be launched in Johannesburg on the fourth of July. The book is a look at South African singer and […]
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