Rwanda: How Jan Vansina Distorted Rwanda’s History to Serve Colonial Interests
[New Times] When you read Jan Vansina’s books on Rwanda–such as Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom and Le Rwanda Ancien: Le Royaume Nyiginya–you are left wondering why he exerted so much effort to distort Rwanda’s pre-colonial history.
Ghana: GSA Launches New Construction Guidebook
[Ghanaian Times] The Director General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Prof. Alex Dodoo, has warned that poor technical knowledge and the use of substandard materials in informal construction pose a major threat to public safety.
Africa: The Turbulent Career of Getachew Reda
[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…
Ethiopia: New Children’s Books Aim to Inspire Tourism Awareness, Heritage Pride
[Ethiopian Herald] A special event held at the Adwa Memorial on Sunday marked the launch of two new children’s books aimed at promoting tourism education and national heritage awareness among young readers.
South Africa: New Book By Edwin Cameron Gives Practical Steps to Reform Prisons
[GroundUp] “The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”
Nigeria: Ex-EFCC Chair Bawa to Release Book On Fuel Subsidy Regime
[Premium Times] In his book, Mr Bawa reveals the staggering scale, complexity, and audacity of the schemes used to siphon public funds under the guise of fuel subsidy payments.
Africa: 3 Things Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Taught Me – Language Matters, Stories Are Universal, Africa Can Thrive
[The Conversation Africa] Celebrated Kenyan writer and decolonial scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o passed away on 28 May at the age of 87. Many tributes and obituaries have appeared across the world, but we wanted to know more about Thiong’o the m…
South Africa: Young Men On South Africa’s Urban Margins – New Book Follows Their Lives Over 10 Years
[The Conversation Africa] South Africa’s young people, aged 15 to 34, who make up more than 50% of the country’s working age population, bear a disproportionate burden of unemployment. They have done so for more than a decade. Of this group, those aged…
Kenya: ‘They Wanted to Erase My Language – I Chose to Write in It’ – Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o
[Capital FM] Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was precise with his words, and the wordsmith delicately weighed them before he let them roll off his tongue.
South Africa: Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Into Afrikaans – What Took So Long
[The Conversation Africa] At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived – not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known drama, Waiting for Godot, now also lives as Ons W…