Benvictor Makau

Kisii University, located in Kisii County, has continued to enjoy a fruitful partnership with the University of Minnesota for over a decade now. A recent visit to the University by a team of three from the University of Minnesota saw the US-based scholars cement the already-fruitful partnership with Kisii University, making its path even brighter. The visitors started the...

Established in 2022 for Africa as a result of extended wings from the Forty Under 40 Ghana, which is now turning seven years old, the Forty Under 40 Africa Awards is an appreciation scheme for young people aged below forty who are making impact in diverse spheres in the continent. It identifies, honors, and celebrates a cross-section of Africa’s most...

In Kenya, the contemporary society treats secondary education as a crucial stage of education in providing an essential foundation for career opportunities. It is foundational to vitally conclude that a secondary education certificate is entirely the key to vast career opportunities.  This is the primary reason the Ministry of Education, heads of institutions, educators, learners and parents pay attention to good...

Author: Honest Mukwenya Nationality: Zimbabwe Contacts: honestmukwenya@gmail.com Cost: 10 USD Genre: Inspirational Reviewer: Benvictor Makau          Honest Mukwenya is a Zimbabwean author and Motivational speaker. In this book, he reveals that the human problem is less from the external hurdles but more from internally-seated weaknesses, especially psychologically. Reading the entire book offers you a fresh perspective on life and challenges the readers’ approach to...

Genre: Drama Author: Uche Akunebu (Ph.D.) Home Country: Nigeria Contacts: uchewrites@gmail.com Publisher: Stone Touch Communications (2022) Reviewer: Benvictor Makau Oga Vendor is a play written and staged to highlight how the media stands essential in informing, educating, and entertaining the public, but more importantly, how the Newspaper Vendors ensure that the audience gets the newspapers and magazines on time.  It simultaneously paints the image of how the newsstands are points of...

Christmas festive season has always been a time of celebrations and merriment. You might, however, be surprised to realize that while you are profusely having fun, surrounded by abundance, joy and laughter, there has always been someone yonder with nothing to fun with. The orphaned, street children, widows and widowers, and the less fortunate have always been there with us, yet...

At some point, I had almost lost hopeOriki Doubar, 2022 KCPE Candidate. The recent release of the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results by the Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu, has elicited much joy into the faces of the young minds, but also burst the bubble for others. Hard work, discipline, hope, good time management, and other pertinent gems...

Author: Awadifo Olga Kili Country: Uganda Genre: Fiction Contacts: awadifokili@gmail.com Reviewer: Benvictor Makau Set in Ayia, a land of abundance whose people adore nature and withhold it with awe, believing every iota of it is a sacred gift from a Supreme Being, is the story of Stains on a Cowrie Shell. As narrated by Awadifo Olga Kili, the author, “Ayia was blessed with honey and...

At Taifa Hall, on Friday, December 16, 2022, the University of Nairobi (UoN) held its 68th Graduation Ceremony for the conferment of degrees and the awarding of Diplomas. The congregation was guided by the theme Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development. Over 6,600 students graduated from the ten faculties in the Kenya's leading University, bringing the total of the graduates being...

As an enthusiastic author, playwright, poet, English Literature teacher, mentor and encourager of young minds to embrace literary knowledge through reading and writing, Bonface Otieno stands out among the young people advocating for literacy through practice and determination. Otieno studied at Kabarak University, finished his degree training in December 2021 and joined the workforce as a teacher a month later,...