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...
Apr 6, 2024
It is hard for me to find the words to describe Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. This novel took me on an emotional rollercoaster ride which was excruciatingly wonderful yet wondrously traumatic. At various times I felt like this book deserved 5⭐️ or...
Oct 15, 2023
Why Nations Fail is an enlightening book which offers plausible, although at times overly simplistic explanations for why some nations are more successful on an economical dimension than others. In short, the authors’ main thesis is that inclusive and...
Mar 25, 2022
I found Road to Wigan Pier quite a difficult book to read. I started and stopped several times, but in the end managed to persevere to the finish. Although George Orwell is a widely acclaimed fiction author, this particular non-fiction work from him felt bland and...
Feb 19, 2022
“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.” This...
