Africa to Read This Year
r Kimani
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people know of the past. Yet seldom do we read the stories of those chroniclers of history. That’s Biubwa Amour Zahor: Mwanamke exactly what Charles Onyango-Obbo, the doyen Mwanamapinduzi of east African journalism, Ugandan by birth, and anzania might pan-African by work—his footprints are to be found be in the news everywhere, from Nairobi to Johannesburg— for producing east seeks to redress. f Africa’s A first Nobel The result: a compelling read that should enrich laureate l for Literature, our understanding of journalism pioneers in the but b there are other region. Written in sprightly diction, the book is as compelling reasons entertaining as it is informative. c that merit attention, t https://qz.com/africa/2110016/five-great-bookslike the pathbreaking l from-africa-to-read-in-2022 biography b by BBC journalist Zuhura This article is republished from The Conversation j under a Creative Commons license. Read the Yunus. Y original article. https://theconversation.com/ Biubwa Amour holiday-reading-five-picks-from-a-great-year-forZahor: Mwanamke Z african-writing-173160 Mwanamapinduzi Image credit: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, (Biubwa Amour ( BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, GRAYWOLF Zahor: The R Revolutionary Woman), written in Z h Th l i PRESS, E&D VISION PUBLISHING, KAS Kiswahili, retrieves from the Tanzanian archives MEDIA, iStock a colorful character whose exploits in the 1960s revolution have largely gone unnoticed. This act of recovery, hopefully, will draw attention to other forgotten heroines and introduce them to a younger generation of readers.
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