Book Review

AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• Nigeria: Americanah - The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  [ThinkAfricaPress]The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the jet-setting, cross-national Afropolitan experience, but not as a story of triumph.
  
  
• Kenya: Book Review - Kimenye's Last Books Speak to the Youth
  [The Star]Our youth are in a grave danger of falling into criminal activities and exploitation by unscrupulous people on the loose. The tricks used to lure them have evolved from the offers of lifts and gifts by strangers to the more subtle induction by fellow youths on recruiting missions.
  
  
• Kenya: Auma Obama Releases Book and Movie
  [The Star]Auma Obama is famous as the sister of the America President Baraka Obama. Ever since the American became president she has become a person of interest to many internationally. Thursday evening saw Auma launch the English version of her life And Then Life Happens: A Memoir at Goethe Institute. The book had initially been written in German.
  
  
• Nigeria: Popular MC Adeyemi Unveils Book
  [Daily Trust]Actor and master of ceremonies, Collins Adeyemi has unveiled a book which he says will set a new record in marketing communication.
  
  
• Angola: Nation Makes Significant Steps in Evangelization - Tocoist Bishop
  [ANGOP]Luanda -Angola is making positive steps in the field of evangelization and should be proud of having a national church which is arising in the midst of all other religious congregations by the willingness of God.
  
  
• Zimbabwe: Following Up On a Nama Award Winner
  [The Herald]Some people take awards in the arts for granted. After the ceremony, they do not care about the winner. They do not make a follow up to observe the effects of an award on the artist. kwaChirere followed up on David Mungoshi whose novel; The Fading Sun won Zimbabwe's National Arts Merit Award (Nama) in the Outstanding Fiction category in 2010, to see what Nama has done in the real life of an artist.
  
  
• Uganda: Celebrating the Introvert
  [Independent]"Eye-opening, Astounding, Life-changing, Inspirational and Insightful" are just among the adjectives that best describe this amazing book.