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Kinyanjui Kombani: Wueh! How time flies! First, it is an opportunity to reflect on my own writing and publishing journey. Life moves so quickly that we forget about how far we have come. When I wrote the book, all I wanted was to see it on a shelf at a bookshop — specifically, at the […]
TITLE: My Life in Prison AUTHOR: John Kiriamiti PUBLISHER: East African Educational Publishers REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa Following the sensation that was My Life in Crime, My Life in Prison tells the horror that was prison life for Jack Zollo, the writer of the two books. Fortunately, prison life is the kind of life most people […]
The 2023 edition of the regional book fair, organised by the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) ended on Saturday in Eldoret. The event, that was held at the Eldo Center Car Park, kicked off on Wednesday. It brought together a number of publishers and booksellers, who sold books at discounted prices to members of the public. […]
Title: The Girl with the Louding Voice Author: Abi Dare Publisher: Sceptre (UK) Reviewer: Cynthia Abdallah It is not enough that the main character Adunni will tug at your heartstrings and make you sympathize with the plight of the girl child in the novel, The Girl with the Louding Voice. Her father’s decision to marry her […]
Title: Hawkers-Pokers Author: Kinyanjui Kombani Publisher: Longhorn Reviewer: Mbugua Ngunjiri Kinyanjui Kombani is back, this time with a thriller, whose twists and turns will keep the reader glued to the book’s pages till the very end. The story is told through the eyes of Rocky Ada (Rada), hawker, who is the eyes (riitho) of fellow […]
Title: Benji’s Big WinAuthor: Nducu wa NgugiPublisher: East African Educational PublishersAvailability: Leading BookstoresReviewer: Mbugua Ngunjiri Though he enjoys his life in school, there are a number of things bothering Benji.Top of them is his father’s apparent disinterest in his budding football career. He is not only the top striker in Kamden Boys School, he is […]
Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry Reviewer: Mbugua Ngunjiri Never, in their wildest imaginations, did players in the British media expect that a member of the royal family would come swinging at them the way rebel Prince Harry has done in his tell-all book Spare. The tabloids took refuge in the fact that the royal household […]
Ten things you should know about Father Samuel Wachira, the only priest in Kenya, to have written a full-length book on popular literature. 1. Father Samuel Wachira was born and raised in Sagana, Kirinyaga County. 2. He studied priesthood at the Pontifical Institute for Biblical Studies in Rome. 3. His first posting as a priest […]
Five little known facts about Prof Kithaka wa Mberia. 1. He teaches Linguistics at the University of Nairobi and not Kiswahili, as widely believed by many. One of the many Vice-Chancellors he has served under, at UoN, long held the belief that Prof Mberia taught Kiswahili. 2. His book Kwenzi Gizani, which won the Jomo […]
When Jaramogi Oginga Odinga sent his son Raila Odinga to communist East Germany, it was on the firm understanding that he would eventually study Medicine, despite the fact that the son was inclined to the arts. This was in 1962 and Raila was only 17. He had just left Maranda School. In Germany, he was […]