Njenga Karume, a man I admired for his supposed entrepreneurial spirit, launched his autobiography Beyond Expectations: From Charcoal to Gold yesterday.
The book, which was serialised in the Daily Nation for a couple of days, makes for a fine read though it shows Njenga Karume for what he truly is: An opportunistic entrepreneur whose best asset was his tribe and boy, didn't he use it to the full? Look at the distributorship with EABL, the GEMA links, huge properties at the Coast (hotels), the land in the Rift Valley ... this fella made it big.
A quick perusal at the book shows Njenga literally worshipping Jomo Kenyatta and Mwai Kibaki ...
Well...
Over to Macmillan Publishers, another book launch.
Here is part of the press release
"Former Kenyan Ambassador to Washington, Dr Benjamin E Kipkorir, has just written hard-hitting memoirs entitled, Descent from Cherang’any Hills: Memoirs of a Reluctant Academic. The book, published by Macmillan Kenya Publishers, will be launched tomorrow, Friday 11th December 2009 at the Lifestyle Mediastore, Westgate Shopping Centre, Westlands. The Guest of Honour will be the Hon. Kenneth Marende, EGH, MP, Speaker of the National Assembly. The occasion will be held from 6.00pm to 8.00 pm. Ambassador Kipkorir’s memoirs are a stunning account told in captivating literary language, gripping phrases and simple sentences mortised to astonishing tightness. It is a breathtaking study in genius and plain perspiration – an exhilarating look deep inside the life of a man who as a boy struggled hard just to survive but still beat great odds to scale the highest heights he possibly could. It is a story about what spawned and inspired, birthed and moulded him to pull himself from nowhere to become an icon. The memoirs are truly “Been there, done that, indeed!”
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