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A Review of David Branch’s Kenya: Between Hope And Despair, 1963-2011 Democracy is really a complex phenomenon. It involves the right of people to criticise freely without being detained in prison. It involves the people’s right to know how the wealth is produced in the country, who controls the wealth, and for whose benefit
When the time comes for you to marry, take one wife and one wife alone…listen to your wife’s words. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is Lola Shoneyin’s 2010 debut novel. It provides an intriguing portrayal of the lives of a polygamous family in Ibadan, Nigeria.The family patriarch, Baba Segi, is an uncouth,
Jun 12Born a Crime: A Review
Title: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Author: Trevor Noah ISBN: 9781473635296 Page count: 304 Pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Trevor Noah’s autobiography Born A Crime is as much a history of modern South Africa as it is Trevor’s story. That he starts and ends with two traumatizing events, one where
Title: Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History Author: Saul David ISBN: 9781444762549 Page Count: 446 pp. Publisher: Little, Brown & Company This isn’t a new story, but an old story done differently. I can’t remember the first time I watched “Raid on Entebbe”,
Title: Riding on a Tiger Author: Moody Awori ISBN: 9789966349910 Publisher: Moran Publishers I was in Standard Three at Busia Airstrip Primary School when I first heard of Moody Awori. He had just joined the campaigns for political office in the 1983 snap elections. Moody, later to be known as Uncle Moody, won the elections