Book Review

AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• Nigeria: Book Review - Kasie - a Balm for Loss, Love and Life
  [Premium Times] Kasie, which mean "To be Comforted", Jude says it all and as captured in book's introduction.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review - Is Economic Orthodoxy Out to Lunch?
  [Daily Maverick] A lot of government policy is informed by economics. It also steers corporate thinking and strategy - and lobbying. And apparently a lot of decisions we make as individuals about how we spend our time, how hard we work and how we allocate our resources, is influenced, whether we realise it or not, by economics. So the 'dismal science' gives rise to all kinds of questions.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review - How to Fight Inequality
  [Daily Maverick] 'How to Fight Inequality' by international anti-inequality campaigner Ben Phillips aims to recruit ordinary people to engage in everyday organising to question the prevailing dystopian order... and then do something about it.
  
  
• Sudan: Adieu... Great Novelist Ibrahim Ishaq
  [SudaNow] Khartoum -- Renowned Sudanese novelist, short story writer, Ibrahim Ishaq died early Saturday while on medication in the United States, aged 75.