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Book Review: A Lesson Before Dying By Ernest J Gaines

WamathaiSeptember 7, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi This week has seen the world revel in the spectacle that is the Democratic National Convention. A Lesson Before Dying is a reminder of ju...

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Book Review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

WamathaiAugust 31, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi Jonathan Franzen has a knack for interrogating the idiosyncrasies of America by looking at a family-singular, yet representative. Living ...

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Book Review: Small Island By Andrea Levy

WamathaiAugust 24, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi Because of the reach of the British Empire, there were two sorts of people that Soyinka references in his poem ‘Telephone Conversation’: ...

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Book Review: The Eighth Wife By Miriam Were

WamathaiAugust 17, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi Professor Miriam Were is known to many of us as a writer of matters medical. In this book, we encounter Were the author of a book tha...

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Book Review: Revolutionary Road By Richard Yates

WamathaiAugust 3, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi Yates paints a picture of the middle-class family in the 50s that we have come to recognise from watching 'Mad Men', the TV series. F...

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Book Review: Britain’s Gulag By Caroline Elkins

WamathaiJuly 27, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi The Mau Mau War has recently been in the news on account of the court case regarding British culpability in the various atrocities t...

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Book Review: Ex-Libris by Ross King

WamathaiJuly 20, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi How many times have we walked into a bookshop-or encountered the roadside bookseller-and contemplated the lives of those that whet our ap...

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Book Review: The Men From Pretoria – By Hilary Ng’weno

WamathaiJuly 6, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi This year, South Africa celebrates 20 years since its return to the international sports arena and this week, we explore a book from its ...

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Book Review: The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

WamathaiJune 15, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi First published in 1942 as World War II raged, this book is as relevant today as it was 70 years ago. In this story that stirred so much ...

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Book Review: The Thing Around Your Neck By Chimamanda Adichie

WamathaiJune 8, 2012

By Nyambura Mutanyi Filled with stories from her home country Nigeria and away, this book is an anthology of twelve stories that reflect the experiences from...

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