Get and Read The Scholar Magazine Issue 30
Get and Read The Scholar Magazine Issue 30

African Literature

Blurb and cover page of Dear Anita. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Dear Anita

Author:       Barack Wandera Title:            Dear Anita Contact:      barackwandera@yahoo.com  Cost:             KSh500 Publisher and Year:   InterCEN Books, 2022 Reviewer:  ...
The cover and blurb of Song of my Dreams and Other Songs anthology by St. Andrews Creative Writers and Book Club from St. Andrews Tarabete Secondary School, Naivasha. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Song of my Dreams & Other Songs

Anthology Title: Song of my Dreams & Other Songs Anthologists: St. Andrews Creative Writers & Book Club Selection and Editing: Bonface Otieno Contacts: standrewscreativewritersclub@gmail.com, +254 746955316 Cost: KES 500 Reviewer: Benvictor Makau Publisher & Year: Abba Publishers, 2022 In today’s world, music, art, drama, and poetry...
The cover of the Mourning Glory novel by Prof. Egara Kabaji. He is a Literary Communication Professor, based at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST). PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Mourning Glory

Author: Prof. Egara Kabaji Title: Mourning Glory Contact: egarakabaji@gmail.com Cost: KSh. 500 Publisher and Year: InterCEN Books, 2022 Reviewer: Mbukha Shitemi Prof. Egara Kabaji’s new novel, Mourning Glory, is a heart-rending story that will bring variegated emotions in how it treats the pain,...
Front cover of A Silent Song and Other Stories, one of the new set books for Kenyan Secondary Schools. PHOTO/Bonface Otieno, The Scholar Media Africa.

BOOK REVIEW: A Silent Song and Other Stories Part 1

Title: A Silent Song and Other Stories Selected & Edited by: Godwin Siundu Published by: Spotlight Publishers E.A Limited Publication Year: 2020 The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is a summative test examination that students are tested...
Anthony Oduori, a renowned Kenyan poet, author and literature-lover. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Following the footprints of Oduori, an exquisitely prolific author, poet

Born and bred as a village boy at the Bukulumi village of Bukulumi Butula constituency, Busia county, Antony Wesonga Oduori first set foot in Nairobi City, Kenya’s capital, courtesy of Lenana School for his...
The book's cover page. Toperesu encourages ther reader to press on, even when things seem hard, with the hope of coming out of it all successfully. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: It’s Okay to not be Okay

Title: It's Okay to not be Okay - Getting the best out of every unpleasant experience Author: Tawanda Toperesu Home Country: Zimbabwe Email: toperesutawanda98@gmail.com Price: 10 USD Genre: Inspirational Publisher: BMZIT  Reviewer: Daniel Tusiimukye K'abaasa  Tawanda Toperesu, a Zimbabwean-born author and entrepreneur,...
Cover Page of the Get Serious book by Honest Mukwenya. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Nuggets from ‘Get Serious’ by Honest Mukwenya

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...
Cover Page of the Oga Vendor play. It is a collection of thoughts depicting the Post-colonial Africa, highlighting the power of unity and knowledge-based action towards injustice. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Oga Vendor

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...
Appreciating art.

POETRY: The Call of the Wild

A busy suburb, a well-laid-out mall, crazy traffic, ascending prices and the intrusion of technology.  All these are easily recognizable as the hallmarks of modern living, the practical re-organization of the plate of humanity to...
A cover page design of the book 'Stains on a Cowrie Shell' by Awadifo Olga Kili. The author uses fiction to call the world to attention on the need to cease and discard any tradition and custom ruining people's lives with regard to human rights. PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Stains on a Cowrie Shell

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...