Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite Published: 2018 Publisher: Penguin random house Pages: 240 Imagine having a sister who carries a knife on dates. Imagine that she has a habit of murdering her boyfriends. Imagine being the one she calls for help in cleaning her mess i.e. clean the blood, dispose of the body etc. Imagine knowing that …
In 2012 the reserve bank of Malawi introduced new faces on the Malawian Kwacha notes. Amongst them a very beautiful woman. Her face was on the new two hundred Kwacha note. Rose Chibambo was her name. Now I remember the first time I saw this woman…. I was with my cousin on a veranda sharing …
One of my 2019’s new year’s resolutions was to read more books by African authors. Even though I have been a lover of book for a long time, I rarely read anything written by Africans or set in Africa… yet I called myself an African writer. The paradox. So as 2019 was starting, I made …
This year I attended the Ake Arts and Book festival for the very first time. Just in case you are not familiar with Ake, it is an annual literary, cultural, and art event based in Nigeria. It was founded in 2013 by the Nigerian writer Lola Shoneyin and has become one of the most prominent …
The Smart Money Woman: An African girl’s journey to financial freedom is a book that uses fiction to teach women about personal finances. The book was published in 2016 by the Matador, an imprint of Troubador Publishing Limited. About the Author The book was written by a Nigerian woman called Arese Ugwu. Arese is the …
How does one achieve financial freedom? Money is important, there is no going around that. Money gives us the exchange power with which we get access to various things including food, housing, medical care and even the ability to reach out and impact another person’s life (through donations for example). These days it’s becoming harder …
The first time I saw the book The boy who harnessed the wind, it was in a bookstore. Because I had gone to look for something else, I foolishly decided to stay focused and ignored it. Then someone gifted me the book few days later. The encounter taught me one thing: never ignore a book …
