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  • December 11
  • This Day Nigeria: Do You Enjoy Your Marriage Or Endure it?

    A marriage is a blending that should last and a home should be the happiest place on earth-not a hell, so says Dr. Violet Arene in her latest book, Upper End of Marriage - A Happy Home.

  • December 10
  • Observer Uganda: Book Review - Thirteen Days of Tension

    Book: One Minute to Midnight

  • December 7
  • Mmegi Botswana: Struggling To Protect An Endangered Species

    This is a very important book in the struggle to save the oceans, its oldest creatures and all the rest of life in the sea. "The remaining whales are threatened by Japanese whaling in restricted waters, by heavy metals, global warming pollution, longlines, drift nets, low frequency sonar, ship strikes; 300,000 whales and small cetaceans are killed every year by tangling in fishing gear or as by ...

  • December 6
  • Nation Kenya: How Annan Got Kibaki And Raila to Agree to a Peace Deal

    When chief mediator Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya at the height of the post-election crisis, he hoped to arrange a quick meeting with President Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga in a bid to end the widespread violence in the country.

  • December 3
  • Vanguard Nigeria: Memories of Wasu Echo at Book Launch

    Memories of the roles played by African students in the radical political consciousness of the colonial era was relived, Thursday, in Lagos. The occasion was the public presentation of a book titled "Mama WASU, A Village Girl Turned International Personality," written by 99-year-old Chief (Mrs) Opeolu Solanke-Ogunbiyi, wife of the late Ladipo Solanke, Secretary General of the defunct West African ...

  • Observer Uganda: Churchill's Early Years

    Book: My Early Life

  • November 30
  • Monitor Uganda: No Time to Die, Review

    Title: No Time To Die

  • November 27
  • Observer Uganda: Book Review - Go the Distance

    Book: I will go the distance

  • November 26
  • This Day Nigeria: Those Echoes of Cultural Renaissance

    National Orientation Agency presented a book, Survey of Nigerian Core Values to the Nigerian public recently. At the presentation, the custodians of Nigerian cultural values stressed the need for active engagement of all citizens in value re-orientation as a key to national development.

  • November 25
  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Kosoko Laments Neglect of Visual Arts

    Vice President of Visual Art Association of Nigeria (VATAN), Prince Adeyemi Kosoko has decried the attitude of state governments towards the provision of visual materials to secondary and primary schools in the country.

  • November 24
  • Columbia University Press Kenya: Christianity Politics and Public Life in Kenya by Paul Gifford [book listing]

    Since achieving independence in 1963, Kenya has existed as a classic, patronage state, ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt political elite. Kenya has also become nearly 80 percent Christian, and in this book, Paul Gifford explores the country's diverse churches and their role in shaping public and political life.

  • This Day Nigeria: Of Colonialism, North-South Dichotomy

    Issues and contentions which arose from the launch of a book by elder statesman and legal practitioner, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi last week, will linger for so long, as the book succeeded in revisiting and rekindling the ethnic rivalry which has long existed between the North and the South. Omololu Ogunmade who was present at the occasion, writes on the degree of controversy the launch has created

  • November 23
  • Monitor Uganda: Understanding Bible Teachings About Women [book review]

    Title: Woman in the Eyes of God:

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Ex-Director Launches Book On Abuja's Demolition

    A recently retired director with the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA), Dr Dan Ogun at the weekend launched a book on the demolition exercise that took place in the Federal Capital Territory during the era of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai as FCT minister.

  • November 20
  • Observer Uganda: Book Review - Now That Uganda Has Discovered Oil...

    Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil

  • November 16
  • Vanguard Nigeria: Pentecostal Statesmanship [analysis]

    FOR a man in his nineties, T.M. Aluko still has a very alert mind, and he has come up with a new novel that bears benedictory testimony to his venerated craft. Our Born Again President, a 218-page novel of intrigues in the affairs of state, tells the compelling story of David Tanbata who leads his country to independence and later becomes transformed in a Pentecostal manner not unlike the Biblical ...

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Book Probes Creation of Poverty in SA [book review]

    The Making of Poverty in South Africa

  • November 13
  • Observer Uganda: No Scars, No Story, No Life [book review]

    Book: An Imperfect Offering. Dispatches from the Medical Frontline

  • November 12
  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Another Look At Mandela

    Book Title: Winds of Change in South Africa (From Apartheid to Freedom)


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