Nigeria: Africans Must Write More Biographies of Leaders – Pawa Secretary-General Okediran
[Vanguard] Dr. Wale Okediran, a Nigerian author and Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), has called for greater efforts to document the lives of African leaders and achievers.
Africa: New Book On African Inequalities Challenges Policy Makers
[UCT] Scholars from an African research centre hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT) are key contributors to a new book that aims to shape global discussions and discourses on Africa’s inequality challenges. This multi-institution collaborative w…
Nigeria: Femi Pedro At 70 – Between Fate and Diligence
[This Day] According to Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist, and short story writer, “failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in th…
Zimbabwe: Stoevring’s New Book Promotes Cultural Heritage
[The Herald] Historian, academic, and researcher Joern Stoevring has published an insightful book exploring the San cave paintings’ traditions, particularly focusing on the relationship between humans and animals.
Liberia: The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848-2010 State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature – From Joseph Jenkins Roberts to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
[Liberian Observer] Author: D. Elwood Dunn
Africa: Ankara Declaration – a Positive Development Imbued With Regional Risks
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debat…
South Africa: Can Old Racists Change? Book Tracks Seven Years in a South African Nursing Home
[The Conversation Africa] God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End is a beautifully written and intimate book about the characters in an old age home in South Africa. To write it, anthropologist Casey Golomski spent seven years travelling bet…
Nigeria: Towards a Cohesive Security Approach (1)
[Premium Times] Two books were billed for presentation on that day. One of them was entitled: The Power of Information Sharing: Antidote to Nigeria’s Security Threats. That title instantly attracted my attention as I looked at the invitation card.
Nigeria: A Convenient Memory – The Olukayode Ariwoola Memoirs
[Vanguard] On 22 August 2024, Olukayode Ariwoola, the penultimate Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retired from the bench and transitioned into a published author.
Zimbabwe: Unique Library for Children a Big Hit
[The Herald] A six-year-old bends over a brightly illustrated story book, lips moving and deep in concentration; two brothers look through Wind in the Willows; while an older boy reads quietly at a bench. This was the scene yesterday morning at Marande…