February 9
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Poet Fridolim to Sell 14 CDs in Malanje
ANGOP
The Angolan poet and reciter Fridolim Kamolakamwe will sell 14 CDs on 11 February in the northern Malanje province. Read more »
February 6
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Bringing History to the Present
Monitor
Richard Blake's novel The Sword of Damascus, has now been published in paperback by Hodder & Stoughton. Read more »
February 1
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Concord
In the Fixing Failed States Book by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, the attention of nations and the international community is brought to the realization and the need to be... Read more »
January 31
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership by Erica R. Edwards [book listing]
UMP
How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present Read more »
January 30
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Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe [book review]
The Herald
I first bought a Peter Godwin book, "Mukiwa", on June 21, 1997, in Sacramento, California. I was an employee at Borders, and I remember bragging to co-workers about how I had just... Read more »
January 23
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New Times
"Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and... Read more »
January 20
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Observer
The Mashona of Zimbabwe say that a solar eclipse is caused by angered ancestors. Other southern African peoples like the Zulus and the Venda believe that it occurs when "a... Read more »
January 19
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New Book Details Nation's Struggle for Democracy [book listing]
Swazi Media
The End of the Beginning? 2011, a year in the struggle for freedom in Swaziland by Richard Rooney is a new book published today and available free-of-charge online. You can read on... Read more »
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Saturday Is for Funerals [book review]
PlusNews
One part novella and two parts textbook, Saturday is for Funerals* pairs the recollections of Unity Dow, five-times author and Botswana's first female high-court judge, with the... Read more »
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Photos Depicting Political Wrongs [opinion]
Nairobi Star
An enriching book has been recently published, the work of two remarkable creative artists, Betty Press and Annetta Miller. Read more »
January 18
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Manifesto of a Benevolent Billionaire [book review]
Independent
Title: Screw Business as Usual Read more »
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Big Girl By Danielle Steel [book review]
New Times
In this heartfelt and incisive novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and... Read more »
January 13
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Observer
In 2003 Ross Donaldson, an American medical student, arrives in Sierra Leone. The country had been at war since 1992, with the Freetown government fighting the Rebel United Front. Read more »
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