2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Book Review

Beyond telling the African story in an all-positive approach, as a continental media outlet, The Scholar Media Africa remains determined and outstanding in reviewing books. Our support for African Literature and Authorship, in general, goes past the continental borders and we are open to receiving more and more books for review, especially around the African Narrative.

We look forward to having your book(s) reviewed. You can always share a soft copy of the book via our email at editor@scholarmedia.africa and then, within a short time, furnish us with the hard copy (complimentary copy) for our library.

You know, as in the words of Jeanette Winterson, “Books and doors are the same things. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

Inside Michelle Obama’s head: In Her Own Words

Author: Michelle Obama Editors: Marta Evans and Hanna Masters Publisher: B2 BOOK (Agate Publishing Inc.) Reviewer: Josiah Odanga I read this book from the cover to the blurb in less than two hours. One of the reasons is that...

BOOK REVIEW: I’m in Charge of My Narrative

Genre: Motivational Author: Mejury Chipato Home Country: Zimbabwe Publisher: Atcumbre Publishers Reviewer: Daniel Tusiimukye It is with a strong heart that I flip through the last page of this book; it's with a big hope that I draw the...

A review of Volume II of The Open Society and Its Enemies

In the first part of The Open Society, The Spell of Plato, Karl Popper deals with Plato and gives a devastating criticism of Plato’s political stance and the concept of Historicism. In the second part,...

A critical look at Seneca’s letters

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, or Seneca, as he is commonly known, was a Roman statesman, tutor to Emperor Nero, stoic philosopher and playwright. Seneca was born in Cordoba in Spain, about 4 BCE and...

BOOK REVIEW: The Blood Stains

Author: Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange Publisher‏: ‎ The Writers Pen (November 2020) Price: Ksh. 800 Reviewer: Benvictor Makau A mother's horrifying dream opens the pages of "The Blood Stains" novel. She hears screams from her dying baby, writhing in excruciating...

How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur in Africa: A Practical Guide and Cases

Authors: Prof. John Kuada and Prof. Madei Mangori  Year of Publication: 2021 ISBN: 978-1-913976-08-8 Reviewer: Prof. Felix M. Edoho If the African economic environment is difficult, the African business environment is even more challenging. In spite of all this, however, there...

BOOK REVIEW: Banana Republic, where writing is treasonous

WRITER: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija COUNTRY: Uganda In the first pages of the Banana Republic, there is a depiction of mercy and torture. There is an unforgiving father who must show how merciless he is by cycling to school. He...

BOOK REVIEW: Replenishing the Earth

AUTHOR: Wangari Muta Maathai PUBLISHER: Doubleday, New York “Sometimes, in order to see clearly, we need to step aside and look at situations from different perspectives.” These are the exact words that the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize...

BOOK REVIEW: Young Goodman Brown

AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthrone Reading Nathaniel Hawthrone's Young Goodman Brown reminds me of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Bible. Just like the story of the Pharisees, the author takes the readers through how characters like the...

BOOK REVIEW: Tenants of the House

GENRE: Fiction AUTHOR: Wale Okediran REVIEWER: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed 'To kill is a crime: to kill at the right time is politics' are some of the first words that glued one's heart to Okediran's superb novel. The synopsis...