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AllAfrica News: Book Listings and Reviews

• Africa: Book Review | Tennis for the People
  [New Frame] David Berry's extensively researched history of lawn tennis, from its start in Britain to its status as the Grand Slam to win 150 years later, reveals the little-known more progressive side of the game.
  
  
• Liberia: Judge Eva Mappy Morgan Launches Book On Legal Ethics
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• Africa: The Ties That Bind India and Africa Through Fabric
  [AfricaFocus] The new book Common Threads (along with an accompanying video, both open access), explores the ties that bind India and Africa through the material medium of cloth, from antiquity to the present. Cloth made in India has been sold across African markets for millennia, by Indian, African, and European traders. ... Most significantly, it highlights the role of African consumers in defining the evolution of these genres of fabric, and the centrality of people-to-people connections in sustaining the continued c
  
  
• South Africa: Book Reveals New, Surprising Nuggets About Nelson Mandela's Last Years in Jail
  [The Conversation Africa] Twenty years ago the South African academic Jan-Ad Stemmet met the apartheid era justice minister Kobie Coetsee, who announced he had transcripts of 13,000 pages of recordings of Nelson Mandela's time in prison.
  
  
• Africa: Know the Beginning Well - an Inside Journey Through Five Decades of African Development
  [Africa Renewal] In 1977, a thirty-three-year-old Ghanaian economist with the World Bank was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder that confounded doctors in a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. One day, his heart almost stopped as he passed out. He was later transferred to the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Washington, D.C. where another team of doctors successfully treated him.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review | the Death of Vivek Oji
  [New Frame] In their third novel, author Akwaeke Emezi uses a death to explore a life in Nigeria that was often confusing, displaced and frowned upon, but also filled with unexpected love.
  
  
• South Africa: Book Review - Femicide in South Africa
  [New Frame] Nechama Brodie's book is a historically conscious study of gender-based violence and femicide that traces the lineage of the feminist vocabulary developed to speak about and combat the phenomenon.
  
  
• Nigeria: Book Review - Contending With a Nation's Goliaths
  [Premium Times] Column writing in newspapers, magazines or the social media beyond the entertainment aspect should be a platform not just for sharing knowledge but also a place for interrogating important issues. Everyday for the Goliaths: What Manner of Democracy is this ?, The Devil is not in the Politics and Politics is not a Game for Gentlemen are primarily collections of articles written by Simbo Olorunfemi over a period of five years, from 2014 to 2019.
  
  
• South Africa: Barbara Boswell On the 'Audacity to Write'
  [New Frame] Boswell's forthcoming book And Wrote My Story Anyway archives the work of several women writers, positing that their fiction is a site of feminist theory. Her own fiction writing does the same.
  
  
• South Africa: 'These Are Not Gentle People' - a True Story, a Courtroom Drama, and a Profound Exploration of Collective Guilt
  [Daily Maverick] "I've tried to give everyone their say, and not to pass judgement." - Andrew Harding discusses his new literary nonfiction thriller, 'These Are Not Gentle People'.