Book Reviews - Inherit this for book review formatting (6)
Thursday, 13 October 2011
WIZARD OF THE CROW
Wizard of the Crow (English translation from Gikuyu) Author: Ngugi wa Thiong’o Publ: Anchor Books Reviewer: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye Abstract This paper examines the narrative and stylistic mechanisms of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s English version of…
Thursday, 13 October 2011
THE POLITICS OF BETRAYAL - Diary of a Kenyan Legislator
Author: Joe Khamisi Publ: Trafford, 390 pp Reviewer: John Sibi-Okumu In writing The Politics of Betrayal Joe Khamisi has made an undeniable achievement: He has added a pioneering title to the list of books about…
Thursday, 13 October 2011
MEN OF DYNAMITE- -Pen Portraits of MK Pioneers
Ed.: Rashid Seedat and Razia Saleh. Publ: Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, 2009, Johannesburg. Reviewer: Meg Samuelson, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. This collection of ‘pen portraits’ focuses a band of young Indian men (with one or two…
Thursday, 13 October 2011
HEARTS & SOULS
Author: Leopoldo Paradela Reviewer: Stephen Derwent Partington The author of Hearts & Souls, Leopoldo Paradela, who I suspect wrote his own blurb, is probably right: we possibly do need more ‘love’ in the world, and…
Thursday, 13 October 2011
CRACKDOWN!
Author: Njuguna Mutonya Publ: JC Press Reviewer: Awaaz This 106 page book, simply written and easily read, is a stark reminder to all of us of the tremendous sacrifices made by the fighters for the…
Thursday, 13 October 2011
STRINGS OF PEARLS BLEEDING LIGHT
Author: Sheniz Janmohamed Publ: Tsar Publications Reviewer: Stephen D. P. Over the last couple of decades, numerous scholars of post colonialism, many writing from their own privileged experience as diasporans, have identified hybrid personal identity…
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