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Retirement Planning: A holistic guide...
Yet, not without planning and preparation. Why do many people fail to prepare for the life they want?
This book articulates the opportunities and challenges that come with retirement and how to prepare for the season. It simplifies financial decisions regarding savings, investments and retirement benefits while giving compelling reasons why your preparations should also encompass the psychological and social aspects of retirement.
In this easy-to read book, Rose addresses what, when and how to prepare for and have a meaningful life in retirement. She highlights close to twenty changes retirees are likely to experience, so each reader can choose what resonates most with them. She offers practical ways of preparing for the changes, putting you in control of more factors and making you feel in control of your life as you transition into retirement.
Rose uses case studies and illustrations to demonstrate common retirement planning challenges and the critical role retirement benefits play in providing an income in retirement. She discusses pension plans, annuity and income drawdown plans in detail and guides you on how to select a retirement benefits provider and financial or retirement planner.
With a sense of what matters most in this season of life, Rose discusses family relationships including preparing your children for the transition and wealth transfer to the next generation.
I Swear by Apollo by Margaret Ogola
Adventures with God in Trials and Tri...
“Adventures with God in Trials and Triumphs” is born out of a commitment that Ruth made to God that she would tell of His faithfulness if and when He answered her prayers. She hopes that her story can encourage people navigating through life challenges, to trust in God, and that He will visit them in His perfect time.
Social Science Research: Theory and P...
Research Methods: Quantitative and Qu...
Yes! I am my Father’s Daughter
This is a young Kenyan woman's bumpy journey to self discovery. The author reflects on her life growing up while emotionally uncovering situations that might have led to a painful emotional detachment between her and her family. She tackles societal issues that negatively affected her well-being into her early 20's and opens up on her father's death which led her to know and understand him, and in turn understanding herself.
Broken Vase by Qui Qarre
There are poems I’ve been wanting to scrap off from this book
I feel like I have let you see parts of me that I hate looking at
Parts of me I sometimes don’t want to be associated with
Parts of me I don’t want in my legacy
Parts I don’t want my child to know,
The sad thing is, I’m a storyteller and these are not my stories
These are your stories
Find yourself in them
Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of ...
Brief Summary
What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern, globalized futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the city's future? Exploring the relationship between the remains of empire and the global city, and themes of urban belonging and exclusion, housing and security, Constance Smith examines the making and remaking of one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities.
Nairobi is on the cusp of radical urban change. As in other capital cities across Africa, the Kenyan government has launched "Vision 2030", an urban megaproject that envisions the capital as a "world class metropolis", a spectacular new node in a network of global cities. Yet as a city born of British colonialism, Nairobians also live amongst the dilapidated vestiges of imperial urban planning; spaces designed to regulate urban subjects. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a dilapidated, colonial-era public housing project built as a model urban neighborhood but which is now slated for demolition, Smith explores how projects of self-making and city-making are entwined.
She traces how it is through residents' everyday lives - in the mundane, incremental work of home maintenance, in the accumulation of stories about the past, in ordinary people's aspirations for the future - that urban landscapes are formed, imaginatively, materially and unpredictably, across time. Nairobi emerges as a place of pathways and plans, obstructions and aspirations, residues and endurances, that inflect the way that ordinary people produce the city, generating practices of history making, ideas about urban belonging and attempts to refashion "Vision 2030" into a future more meaningful and inclusive to ordinary city dwellers.
Rays of Hope: Alternative Narratives ...
I Accuse the Press: An Insider’...
The Agikuyu: 1890 – 1965 by Mai...
Brief Summary
Author Maina wa Kinyatti, who has written extensively on the history of the Mau Mau, breaks fresh ground in this treatise, first delivered in The Gikuyu language. The Agikuyu people with their cousins--Embu, Miiru, Mbeere and Akamba--are the inhabitants of central Kenya, which was the epicenter of the decade-long Mau Mau war of liberation.
In this book, Kinyatti deftly navigates through the early phases of Kenya's history from the invasion and occupation of the country by the British imperialists and the Africans' spirited response to repression, which would find expression in formulations such as the Kenya African Union (KAU). Kinyatti pays close attention to KAU's towering figures like Jomo Kenyatta, the country's future founding president.
He explains how his complicated role in the national struggle--anti-imperialism on one hand, and Mau Mau ambivalence on the other--would lead to his mistaken Author Maina wa Kinyatti, who has written extensively on the history of the Mau Mau, breaks fresh ground in this treatise, first delivered in The Gikuyu language.
The Agikuyu people with their cousins--Embu, Miiru, Mbeere and Akamba--are the inhabitants of central Kenya, which was the epicenter of the decade-long Mau Mau war of liberation. In this book, Kinyatti deftly navigates through the early phases of Kenya's history from the invasion and occupation of the country by the British imperialists and the Africans' spirited response to repression, which would find expression in formulations such as the Kenya African Union (KAU).
Kinyatti pays close attention to KAU's towering figures like Jomo Kenyatta, the country's future founding president. He explains how his complicated role in the national struggle--anti-imperialism on one hand, and Mau Mau ambivalence on the other--would lead to his mistaken
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics o...
Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ’s best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the “language debate” in post-colonial studies.
Ngũgĩ describes the book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature…” Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Theatre,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”
Good Luck, Toni by Waithira Francis
Brief Summary
Toni is back Not as the naive, unsophisticated young girl we first met in My Name is Toni, but as a young mother, navigating a second marriage which does not escape the drama and love snares that seem to follow toni everywhere. Will her marriage survive or will it crumble like the first one?
A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen
A Don House is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen, the same author of the evergreen An Enemy of the People. It deals with the fate of a married woman — Nora Helmer — who lacks reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world. The protagonist in the play, Nora had earlier on committed a forgery, in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald Helmer.
And now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out about her vice, and of the shame, such a revelation would bring to his career. When the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem. To her husband, Nora is an amusing 'thing' to be petted, but unreliable.
To other people like Mrs Linden and Nils Krogstad, she is naive and spoiled. Nora symbolizes the status of the majority of women in this conservative patriarchal society, making the play as relevant today as it was, decades ago, in Norway.
Blossoms of the Savannah by H. R. Ole...
Brief Summary
Blossoms of the Savannah follows the lives of two young sisters on the verge of womanhood. Taiyo and Resian both become aware of the conflict between their personal dreams and their duty to the Nasila tradition and culture. H. R. Ole Kulet addresses the elusive concerns of female genital mutilation and early marriages among the Maa community of the Massai and captures the reader's imagination as he traces the girls' excruciatingly painful steps to victory.
Olonana Ole Mbatian ( Makers of Kenya...
Brief Summary
Olonana ole Mbatian, popularly known as Lenana, was one of the most outstanding Masai and Kenyan leaders, African chief and Laibon (prophet/visionary), whose life spanned the second half of the nineteenth, and the first decade of the twentieth centuries.
He lived through and influenced a crucial period in Kenya's history: when the Masai were engaged in nation building, there was competition for leadership, land, people, livestock, wealth and power; and when European intrusions, which were becoming ever more intensive, were shaping Kenya's colonial culture and economy. This is a balanced and critical study of an individual's biography, and historical context.
It analyses for example to what extent Olonana's relationship with the colonialists influenced colonial policy on pastoralism; the devastating effects of colonial policy on pastoralism; and why the Masai shunned westernism, education and trade in favour of traditional pastoralism, and the position of Olonana on these issues. It considers popular perceptions of Olonana as a champion of Masai cultural heritage; and assesses his achievements and legacy. This is a concise biography of a key figure in Masai history, about whom little has been written, which serves well as a general introduction to the history and key figures of the period.
Sweet Pains by George Oduor
Brief Summary
Nadia had always wished to get an education and be somebody in life. When a stepmother she never met, Amala appeared with news of her going to the city, Nadia knew her dream had come to pass, for Amala promised just that. But Nadia did not know she was a victim of an avenge mission and human trafficking network led by Gael, her interesting mistress who turns out Nadia's greatest tormentor and mother of Kaso, the man she loves the most.
Flowering Hunger by George Oduor
Brief Summary
When ambitious project manager Ratego got a job in a remote district, he knew his dream of changing the lives of deprived communities had come to pass.
The peasant farmers were happy, no more hunger, and Ratego built a niche in his career. But hell broke loose when an investor appeared and ordered farmers to vacate the project land in favor of flower mega-investment.
Ratego must act to save the poor farmers and his credibility on trial. He gangs up with the peasants led by the tough-minded Rosa and dives into a crusade against the land grab. In the face of the unfamiliar territory of power politics and betrayal, who can Ratego trust? Murderous men are after his life. An influential government Minister is out to crush and cut any dissenting voice. Yet the stakes are too high and, retreating not an option for Ratego and his band of unsung heroes.
