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Book Review: Escape! Experience Freedom by Vincent Ogutu
Be free by the renewal of your mind, Vincent Ogutu, continues to teach freedom. Motivation comes from belief, then little action. progress is never easy but achievable
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Book Review: Author Catherine Njore making cartography easy for young learners
Catherine Njore introduces children to cartography through engaging books with maps, pictorials, and pullouts. Her work fosters spatial thinking, environmental awareness…
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Book Review: In ‘Mappy Maria: Plant Trees’, Catherine Njore instills the virtues of environmental conservation early in life
Catherine Njore’s Mappy Maria: Plant Trees simplifies cartography for young readers while inspiring environmental conservation. Aimed at children under 15, the book uses…
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“A lot goes on in Nairobi” – Silas Nyanchwani’s short stories is tantalizing as it is controversial
Silas Nyanchwani’s Birthday Break Up vividly portrays Nairobi’s complex city life, weaving tales of hustle, fake relationships, ambition, and unexpected twists. His stor…
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Book Review: Rotten Apples, A play by Oumah Otienoh
Rotten Apples by Oumah Otienoh is a witty, fast‑paced play exposing corruption in Nadabi’s literary scene. Sharp humour, scandal, and solidarity make it a refreshing sta…
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Ten short crime stories in Alexander Nderitu’s, “A Body Made for Sin”
Book has a couple of short stories meant to open one's eyes to the goings-on in a big city. Engaging read. Alex Nderitu is an award winning author
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Book Review: Disco Matanga by Alexander Nderitu
Disco Matanga explores the cultural, mundane and the bizzare in an artistic manner. The short stories are descriptive and magical.
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Book Review – Echoes of Military Souls: a collection of poems by Jerusha Kananu Marete
Echoes of Military Souls by Jerusha Kananu Marete, poetry book
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Book Review: UNSilenced – Unmasking the United Nations’ Culture of Cover-ups, corruption and Impunity by Rasnah Warah
Rasna Warah Exposes impunity, corruption and lethargy at the UN. She is consistent in her messaging revealing why nothing seems to function at the International Organisa…
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Book Review: Nabongo Mumia by John Osogo
Mumia Nabongo was the last King or even emperor whose reach extended in large swathes of Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda. He ruled Luos, Luhya, Maasai etc. When colonia…
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Book Review: An Outline History of Nyanza up to 1914 by William R Ochieng
This books gives a glimpse of Kenya's Nyanza people before colonialism interrupted their lifestyle. There was slavery, wards and above all shows why modern Kenya behaves…
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Book Review: Jua Kali MBA by Dr Torooti Mwirigi
You can rise from the streets to the boardroom. The power of belief and creativity makes one soar in the tough markets. Dr. Torooti Mwirigi briefly showcases that determ…
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