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AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• Angola: Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland From Cape Town to Angola
  [African Arguments]The arch miserableist returns, and he's "happy again, back in Africa, the kingdom of light". A lot of people will hate this book, and I can see why. But strangely, I didn't.
  
  
• Nigeria: Moghalu's Insight into Africa's Economic Path, Quest for Prosperous Future
  [This Day]The book- Emerging Africa, How Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter- authored by Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor Kingsley Moghalu, will be presented to the public tomorrow. Festus Akanbi writes on the issues of globalisation and the need for Nigeria and other African nations to look inward for their economic development as captured in the book
  
  
• Namibia: MK Visits the Capital
  [New Era]American author, filmmaker and poet, MK Asante, is currently visiting the country to empower the youth through Hip-Hop and using art as a tool for social change.
  
  
• Uganda: Obote, Mutesa Children Hit Museveni in New Book
  [Observer]In a new book, Tony Akaki, the first son of former President Milton Obote, has attacked President Museveni over his plot to give away part of Mabira forest for sugarcane growing.
  
  
• Nigeria: Former IGP Blasts Nigerian journalists
  [Daily Trust]London -The immediate past Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Hafiz Ringim has described press reports that he sought asylum in the United Kingdom as "fiction and completely false and untrue."
  
  
• Nigeria: Youngsters Converge On Lagos for Review of Diary of a Misfit
  [Daily Trust]Lagos -About 100 students drawn from over 20 schools in Lagos State gathered Tuesday May 21, 2013 to participate in the reading and reviewing of Diary of a Misfit, a book authored by 16-year old Angel Okwuosa, former Head Girl of Atlantic Hall School, Epe in Lagos.
  
  
• Angola: Angolan Writer José Cassequi Releases Work
  [ANGOP]Luanda -The Angolan writer José Cassequi Monday in Sanza Pombo district, northern Uige province, released a book titled "Pomba da Minha Terra".
  
  
• Nigeria: Americanah - The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  [ThinkAfricaPress]The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the jet-setting, cross-national Afropolitan experience, but not as a story of triumph.