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...
Mar 2, 2025
Nineteen Eighty-Four was one of most riveting books that I have read in ages. George Orwell masterfully reels you in with this gripping tale of a dystopian, totalitarian world built upon repression (psychological, physical and sexual), hate and violence. Although the...
Mar 3, 2024
Although July’s People focuses on a heavy topic, a fictional civil war in the dying days of Apartheid in South Africa, I found it an enthralling read. Perhaps, this is due to my own profound connection with the country, which dates back more than a decade, when...
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...
Jun 27, 2021
Burger’s Daughter is an authentic portrait of life during Apartheid South Africa, written from the perspective of the daughter of a White, Afrikaner freedom fighter, named Rosa Burger. Her heritage makes her an outcast in White society in South Africa, while her...
Kiran Dellimore
