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TITLES: Should I? and How Much AUTHOR: Florence Bett REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa AVAILABILITY: Nuria Book Store If you ask most people about money and investments, you will likely realise that they are clueless about what they are doing and what is going on. If you ask about inflation and investments, most people will fumble, trying […]
TITLE: CONFESSIONS OF NAIROBI MEN AUTHOR: Joan Thatiah REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa AVAILABILITY: Nuria Bookstore After Confessions of Nairobi Women book 1 and 2, Confessions of Nairobi Men is a breath of fresh air. Finally, we are getting something from the men who are always closed up, afraid to let the world see where it hurts. […]
TITLE: Old Money AUTHOR: Charles Chanchori PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa Old Money by Charles Chanchori slowly brings you in, wraps its hands on your throat, grips you and does not let you go until the end where it lets you down slowly, heaving and coughing as you try to crawl back into […]
TITLE: A Surreal Journey of Discovery AUTHOR: Eric Rugara REVIWER: Simiyu Barasa AVAILABILITY: Nuria Bookstore Loss. Not your usual ways of the way stories of loss are written, but the deeper thoughts that assail us when we are alone and we go through losses of loved ones, of loved things, of loved times, of great […]
TITLE: Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two AUTHOR: Joan Thatiah REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa There’s something about secrets and confessions that makes everyone’s ears perk up, listen a little harder and be more curious. That is what Joan Thatiah’s books do. They make you crave what is inside the pages. They make you pay attention Confessions […]
TITLE: A Surreal Journey of Discovery AUTHOR: Eric Rugara PUBLISHER: Self REVIEWER: Godfrey Kogie Life is beautiful when its non-linear. No one wants to leave when living is a surreal journey of discovery. A collections of stories coming from the author who is a widely published contributor of short stories, the book is dedicated to […]
TITLE: Tentacles of Crime AUTHOR: Dennis Odhiambo PUBLISHER: African Ink Publishers REVIEWER: Peter S. Okumu It has taken me weeks to write this review, after finishing reading this book. I had to look for convenient time, and draft the review that the book deserves. When we first spoke, Dennis mentioned to me that the book […]
TITLE: The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe AUTHOR: Geoffrey Nyarota PUBLISHER: Penguin REVIEWER: Scholastica Moraa Like most people, I have always wondered what happened to Zimbabwe. What led to one man holding on to power for so long? I have always wondered if there wasn’t a better person to lead Zimbabwe. Through Geoffrey Nyarota’s book […]
Title: Kwenzi Gizani Author: Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia Genre: Play (Tamthilia) Publisher: Marimba Publications Limited Reviewer: Kelvin J. Shachile Kwenzi Gizani is a Kiswahili play that follows the proceedings of the pursuit of justice by Chagi, whose daughter Kanevu has been sexually assaulted by her father Mkando. Chagi stands her ground to seek for clarity […]
Title: Nothing But the Truth Author: Yusuf K Dawood Publisher: East African Educational Publishers Reviewer: Scholastica Moraa I started reading this book enthusiastically; with a desire to know the man behind the thrilling Surgeon’s Diary in the Sunday Nation newspaper. The book did not disappoint and since the beginning I have read on, feverishly flipping […]