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• Liberia: New Book Examines Property Tax in Africa
  [New Dawn] Africa's rapid growth and urbanization will require stable local governments to deliver goods and services to billions of people, and the continent can look to an underutilized source of revenue, the property tax, write the authors of a book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  
  
• Zambia: Fifth President - Memoirs of Michael Sata in Passion Indelible
  [Zambia Reports] Fifth Republican president Michael Chilufya Sata's memoirs have been documented in a book co-authored by one of his own - Mubanga.
  
  
• Kenya: Textbook Directive Wrong
  [Nation] A ministerial directive for a review of the list of approved books for primary and secondary schools is bound to trigger fierce debate.
  
  
• Zimbabwe: Former Deputy PM Mutambara's New Book an Inspiring Read?
  [Zimbabwe Independent] Arthur Mutambara's In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream: An Autobiography of Thought Leadership, Vol 1.
  
  
• Liberia: Book Review - Biography 0f Dr. Angie Elizabeth Brooks-Randolph
  [Observer] Dr. Angie Elizabeth Brooks-Randolph, Liberia's Phenomenal National and International Servant, is the celebratory biography of this great Liberian woman who rose from a poverty-stricken background to become the only African female President of the UN General Assembly.
  
  
• Liberia: IBFD Publishes Book On
  [NEWS] The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) headquartered in The Netherlands has launched its latest publication on its International Tax law Series, focusing on Taxation of Shipping and Air Transport in Domestic Law, EU Law and Tax Treaties.
  
  
• Africa: NY Times Gettleman's Memoire Explores Long Africa Tenure
  [Nation] New York -Jeffrey Gettleman has to be one of the luckiest men alive.
  
  
• Nigeria: Diary of a Professional Bridesmaid
  [Guardian] It is very uncommon to begin a review with a definition of 'terms'. This is usually associated with academic papers, but this review is dealing with an unusual subject that is dealt with in an unusual style. Therefore, it is only proper that it begins in the character of its 'unusualness'. The key word in Memoirs of a Professional Bridesmaid (Kachifo's Prestige Imprint, Lagos; 2017), authored by Nneka Ijeoma, is the word 'memoirs' which the 2010 edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines a