News, Commentary & Social Media from African Perspective

Ekene Onu On ‘The Mrs Club’

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The Nigerian author, a self-described “cultural chameleon”, talks about her new book - “The Mrs. Club”.

Reading The Ceiling with Dayo Forster

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The Gambian-born writer took up writing at 35 and it took four years to get her first book contract.

Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” Clocks 50

“A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize and winner last year of the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction”, Associated Press writes about the Chinua Achebe, the author of “Things Fall Apart” a novel that “has been translated into more than 30 languages and sales top 10 million copies. No book by [...]

Remember Ajasco, Drum Magazine and Pacesetters Series?

By Segun Adegoke. Atlanta, US.
I grew up reading DC comics, Commando, Battle Stations, James Hadley Chase, and Nick Carter. Then there were other indigenous publications e.g. Pacesetters Novels that were quite popular in Nigeria many years ago.
To the Nigerian readers, this post may mean something, well, at least to those old enough to read [...]

Breaking the Culture of Silence With Jude Dibia

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Meet Jude Dibia, a controversial Nigerian Author.

African Fractals and the Mathematics of Cornrows

Fractal geometry, ethnomathematics, African Architecture and information technology are some of the phrases one can associate with Ron Eglash - a college science professor whose research examines the ways “information technology, mathematical modeling, and other science and technology practices are intertwined with cultural categories such as race, gender, and class.” Quite a bit to [...]

Interview: Bestselling Author David S. Fick (Entrepreneurship in Africa) Speaks with Benin Mwangi

david-fick.jpgI had the pleasure of exchanging dialogue with a world renowned author who has written two popular books about entrepreneurship in Africa. His name is David S. Fick (photo). Because this interview is so detailed and filled to the brim with facts and information, the interview is broken into two parts. The first part we are premiering here on beninmwangi.com. The second half, which provides instruction from Mr. Fick on how you can participate in the launch of his upcoming book will be premiered on the African Path.

About David S. Fick

Fick is the author of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes and is currently researching his third book, African Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century, which will feature examples of African entrepreneurs who have demonstrated visionary and strategic entrepreneurial leadership across the continent. Fick generously donates all author’s royalties due to him from the sale of his first – and this, his second – book to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in support of their medical relief projects in Africa and will do the same when his third book is published.