How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur in Africa: A Practical Guide and Cases
Authors: Prof. John Kuada and Prof. Madei Mangori
Year of Publication: 2021 ISBN: 978-1-913976-08-8
Reviewer: Prof. Felix M. Edoho
If the African economic environment is difficult, the African business environment is even more challenging. In spite of all this, however, there...
BOOK REVIEW: Banana Republic, where writing is treasonous
WRITER: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
COUNTRY: Uganda
In the first pages of the Banana Republic, there is a depiction of mercy and torture.
There is an unforgiving father who must show how merciless he is by cycling to school.
He...
BOOK REVIEW: Replenishing the Earth
AUTHOR: Wangari Muta Maathai
PUBLISHER: Doubleday, New York
“Sometimes, in order to see clearly, we need to step aside and look at situations from different perspectives.”
These are the exact words that the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize...
BOOK REVIEW: Young Goodman Brown
AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthrone
Reading Nathaniel Hawthrone's Young Goodman Brown reminds me of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Bible.
Just like the story of the Pharisees, the author takes the readers through how characters like the...
BOOK REVIEW: Tenants of the House
GENRE: Fiction
AUTHOR: Wale Okediran
REVIEWER: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
'To kill is a crime: to kill at the right time is politics' are some of the first words that glued one's heart to Okediran's superb novel.
The synopsis...
BOOK REVIEW: My take on a rare poetic play
On reading Zziwa Zinabala's poetic play – it raised a plethora of queries than answers. It is a farrago of sentiments in his book.
For those who have not yet gotten the book; the author...
BOOK REVIEW: Cry, the Beloved Country
GENRE: Novel
AUTHOR: Alan Stewart Paton
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: South Africa
REVIEWER: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
Cry, the Beloved Country is written from the perspective of a third person omniscient narrator, who mainly stays focused on the internal world of...
BOOK REVIEW: The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1
Sometimes when you read text that is over seventy years old, you find it not relevant. The language is 'outdated', words have changed meaning or fallen out of use, references obscures.
If it is a...
BOOK REVIEW: Desiree’s Baby
AUTHOR: Kate Chopin
REVIEWER: Agatha Rachael Akullu
Desiree's Baby, a short story by Kate Chopin was published in her collection "A Night in Acadie" in 1897.
Kate's vividly crafted story is a deep analysis of the complex...
BOOK REVIEW: Lawyer’s book to give children hope during Covid-19 pandemic
The name of lawyer Rachael Twinomugisha, popularly known as auntie Rrech has been heard by many in Kampala and beyond for a while.
Apart from other things she does, Twinomugisha is freshest children’s literature publisher...














































