2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
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Book Review

Beyond telling the African story in an all-positive approach, as a continental media outlet, The Scholar Media Africa remains determined and outstanding in reviewing books. Our support for African Literature and Authorship, in general, goes past the continental borders and we are open to receiving more and more books for review, especially around the African Narrative.

We look forward to having your book(s) reviewed. You can always share a soft copy of the book via our email at editor@scholarmedia.africa and then, within a short time, furnish us with the hard copy (complimentary copy) for our library.

You know, as in the words of Jeanette Winterson, “Books and doors are the same things. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

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...