By Lillian Akampurira Aujo As much as this story is set in Kenya, Amin’s 1972 Decree expelling Asians from Uganda spills over into the lives of Lumumba, Odush, Dado, and Mose: Uganda’s economy has fallen so fabric is more expensive, coffee is being smuggled out of Uganda and into Kenya […]
Book Reviews
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Neema Shah’s debut novel follows the lives of an Indian family living in Kampala in 1972, just after Idi Amin orders non-Ugandan Asians to leave the country within 90 days, accusing them of ‘milking the cow but not feeding it’. By Kalungi Kabuye, Journalist @ New Vision Title: Kololo Hill […]
Okey Ndibe’s “Foreign Gods, Inc.” tells the story of a Nigerian-born New Yorker called Ike. Ike has an Amherst degree in economics, however, his accent has kept him from finding a job in corporate America. So he works as a cab driver. His customers mispronounce his name, and the name […]
Arrows of Rain is the debut novel of Nigerian American author Okey Ndibe. The book was published under the Heinemann’s African Writers Series and it chronicles the story of two men, one searching for truth about his past and the other for redemption for his past. This book is deeply […]
In 2012 African Writers Trust (AWT) launched an editorial and publishing programme which aimed to help writers and editors who wished to pursue a career in the publishing industry.In implementing this program, the AWT aims to create a sustainable model, which will address the critical shortage of editors and […]
Review by Lucy A. Armstrong Intimacy that is kept distant is a rare attribute in a book, one which few authors – such as Margaret Atwood – have been able to master effectively. But Algerian writer Assia Djebar conveys this sense of secrecy and detachment beautifully as she traces the […]
Book review by Lucy A. Armstrong Reading Ben Okri’s spectral Stars of the New Curfew is like undergoing a series of transitory hallucinations – garish and gory and without the illumination of his Booker Prize winner The Famished Road a few years later. Basking in imagery of shadows and putrid, […]
A REVIEW OF MAX SIOLLUN’S ‘SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE’ By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Publisher: CASSAVA REPUBLIC Number of pages: 336 I consider the book essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Nigeria from 1983 till date, even though it covers the period 1983-1993. History is not popular in Nigeria. Rare […]
10th of November was the 18th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s execution. The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, launched the book, Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa, edited by Helen Fallon, Íde Corley and Laurence Cox, published jointly by CODESRIA and Daraja Press. The book contains 28 letters […]
Irki is one of the poetry books published in 2013 that one ought to read before the year ends. Reason, it takes the idea of knitting to a poetic level that becomes crucial in understanding how each individual poem threads into a collection of 53 poems structured under four parts. […]