The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a self-help published in 1910 and is about how to use ancient Chinese military strategies in order to succeed in business, politics and everyday life in general. In this book Sun Tzu lays out military strategies that helped make him the greatest war leader and military strategist. …
The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda is a work of fiction published in 1971 and is about the happenings in the township of Mahlatswetsa, Excelsior, where 19 citizens where charged in 1971 for violating the Immorality Act by engaging in interracial sex. In this book we come across a girl named Popi whose mother, …
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The Choice by Charles Cilliers is a biography published in 2007 about the life story of ex-convict-turned-businessman, author and motivational speaker Gayton McKenzie In this book we learn about the life choices Gayton McKenzie made to get into a life of crime, how he got arrested spending ten years in jail and how he made …
Capitalist Nigger by Chika Onyeani is a business/financial self-help published in the year 2000 and is about just how black people the world over are their own enemies when it comes to economic advancement. In this book Chika Onyeani raises an issue of the spider web doctrine used by many other races to keep wealth …
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason is a self-help published in 1926 and is about how one could accumulate wealth by saving and investing. In this book we follow the story of Arkad who was the wealthiest man in the wealthiest nation in the world and the lessons he gave his friends, …
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One Saturday morning I boiled a kettle and made myself a cup of coffee, but before I could take my first sip I decided to read just one chapter to get myself in the mood for this legal thriller I had just picked up. I could not stop at one chapter but when I …
I had just finished reading Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark and it had been such a good read I was convinced anything I would read immediately thereafter would be an anticlimax, but boy was I wrong! Leigh Nichols’ The Eye of Darkness is an intense psychological thriller that borders on the ghastly without being …
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My favourite poem Nikki Giovanni called Hot Chocolate starts with the words: ‘This is not a Poem…’ So to speak of the Abantu Book Festival one would say: This is not a Book Fair It’s an experience. Not just a meeting place For writers and buyers But an intersection Of ideas, values and perspectives Of …