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Book Excerpt: Only the Dead by Hamilton Wende
Penguin Books South Africa has released an extract from Hamilton Wende’s brand new novel, Only the Dead. In the following piece, the protagonist’s commitment to fighting terrorists is damaging his...
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Video: Dianna Games Talks to Polity About Doing Business in Africa
Diana Games talked to Creamer Media’s Shannon de Ryhove recently about her book, Doing Business in Africa: Corporate Insights, which she said she initially started as a way of collating her columns...
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Read an Excerpt from Gareth Crocker’s Journey from Darkness
Penguin has shared an extract from Journey from Darkness by Gareth Crocker, an adventure story set on the borders between South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. In this extract, twin brothers Edward and...
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Nuruddin Farah Looks at the Positive Effects of Education
Nuruddin Farah, author of Crossbones, and Caroline Kende-Robb, executive director of the Africa Progress Panel, wrote an article on education in Africa for The East African. Citing conflict as a key...
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Second Excerpt from Only the Dead by Hamilton Wende
If you didn’t get enough of Hamilton Wende’s latest novel, Only the Dead, when Penguin Books shared an extract from the book last year, take a peek at a second excerpt published on Wende’s website. In...
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Podcast: Hamilton Wende Talks to Sue Grant-Marshall About the Mythology in...
Sue Grant-Marshall recently chatted with Hamilton Wende on her Radio Today show, Reading Matters, about his latest book Only The Dead. Wende says his writing is influenced by film, as he also works in...
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The Life of a Doctor Without Borders in Band-Aid for a Broken Leg by Damien...
Damien Brown thinks he’s ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he’s sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the...
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Nigeria’s Rainbow Book Club Hosts Discussion of Chinua Achebe’s There Was A...
The Rainbow Book Club, which is part of the Rainbow Education for Advancement and Development Foundation, hosted a discussion of Chinua Achebe’s memoir, There Was A Country: A Personal History of...
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An Intimate Portrait of Africa: White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse
Incredibly moving and beautifully drawn, White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse is an intimate portrait of Africa. Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his...
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: Paul Theroux’s Final African Adventure
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of the world’s most celebrated...
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Taiye Selasi Writes About How She Finally Felt Able to Answer the Question:...
Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go, has written a short memoir for The Guardian describing her experience of coming to terms with the family history that left her feeling disconnected from her...
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Podcasts: Damien Brown on Working for Doctors Without Borders and Receiving...
Yolanda Maartens from OFM interviewed Damien Brown, author of Band-Aid for a Broken Leg, on the show A Slice of Life. Maartens asked Brown about his time working in Angola and Sudan for Médecins Sans...
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Podcast: Paul Theroux Discusses The Last Train to Zona Verde with Jenny...
Jenny Crwys-Williams spoke to Paul Theroux about his latest book, The Last Train to Zona Verde, on her book show on Talk Radio 702. Theroux discusses going back to countries he had visited in the past,...
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Dianna Games: Africa’s Achievements Need to Be Put in Perspective
Earlier this month, a boat carrying illegal African immigrants sunk off the coast of Lampedusa, an island south of Italy, leaving over 300 dead. “The reality of thousands of Africans so desperate to...
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Dianna Games Warns More Scrutiny is Needed on China’s Dealings with Africa
In her latest column for Business Day, Dianna Games examines China’s controversial methods of funding and managing business projects in Africa. Games, author of Business in Africa, cites Kenyan...
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A Thief, a War Hero and a President: Fiona Leonard Presents The Chicken Thief
Penguin Books South Africa presents Fiona Leonard’s novel, The Chicken Thief: Alois is The Chicken Thief, a bright young man struggling to find his way in a southern African country wracked by...
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Thrilling Excerpt from The Chicken Thief by Fiona Leonard
Penguin Books South Africa have shared an excerpt from Fiona Leonard’s exciting new novel, The Chicken Thief. The book, which will be released this month, tells the story of Alois, the eponymous...
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Fiona Leonard Reveals her Literary Heroes, Including Italo Calvino and JK...
Fiona Leonard, author of The Chicken Thief, shares her thoughts on writing, and reading, in a short interview with The Times. Leonard says the book that most affected her was If On A Winter’s Night A...
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Karen Paolillo Describes Her Fight to Protect a Family of Hippos in A Hippo...
New from Penguin Books, A Hippo Love Story by Karen Paolillo: When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in...
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Fiona Leonard Discusses Publishing Options: “It’s a Fabulous Time To Be An...
Fiona Leonard has shared her thoughts on the publishing process of her novel, The Chicken Thief, which follows Alois as he finds himself tangled up in a struggle to rescue a war hero that could change...
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