Dec 28, 2025
Ryszard Kapuściński’s, The Shadow of the Sun, is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read about Africa. It is an insightful introduction to this wondrous continent, well suited to non-Africans. Having lived in Africa (South Africa to be exact) for a...
Sep 7, 2025
Weep Not Child is a melancholic lament that will linger with you long after the last page has been turned. It is a short bittersweet narrative about the struggle of the Mau Mau against the British colonial administration in its quest for Kenyan independence. Told...
May 9, 2024
I can’t believe it took me this long to finally read a book by acclaimed Trinidadian author V. S. Naipaul! For some uncanny reason his writing has not come on my reading path until now. In a Free State was therefore my first foray into Naipaul’s literary...
Sep 28, 2021
Habari yako? (That’s Kiswahili for How are you?) I am sorry for the long hiatus from this blog. For the past two weeks I have been away on a business trip to Kenya and unfortunately had very little time to dedicate to blogging. It was an intense period with many...
