Wednesday , July 3 2024

Today knowledge and information have a much higher price than oil, I do enjoy reading business, management, history, engineering & technology books. I have learnt some amazing stuff from books, so here I will, over time, review books that I have found useful and that have made an impression on me. So here you go:

Recent Books

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

Another great memoir I have just read this year, this one is from Indra Nooyi, former CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo. I never knew Indra until I listened to her in one of Master Of Scale episode with Reid Hoffman in September. In that episode Indra and Reid were discussing about …

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Blockchain Chicken Farm

…..after I was done exploring lives in rural Tanzania two weeks ago, I bought this book out of curiosity, in hope that it will also take me to rural China, the country that produces the technology we are using, to explore rural lives there as well. However, you don’t have …

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Prosperity in Rural Africa?

Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudal Studies in Tanzania 9th December, 2021 Tanzania celebrates 60 years of independence and next year, 2022, the country will have a census for population and housing, I think the publication timing of this book couldn’t be any better than this. This book, …

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Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity

The new dynamism in Tanzania and especially the recent mobile money tax (tozo) controversy has motivated me to read this book. This book aims at giving you a dispassionate analysis on the challenges and choices confronting the country and its people in the realm of Tanzania economic policies by focusing …

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A Promised Land

Where were you when you heard that America had elected its first Black president? Well, I was in my final year abroad doing my engineering degree and I was not paying attention at all. But now I think this book has something to learn for everyone. I found this book …

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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

A typical book written by investigative journalist. Both, the title and subtitle of this book are descriptive. In this wide-ranging book, author, David Epstein, refers a lot of books and stories. I’m kind of a generalist myself and this book affirms to my views on the “wicked” world. The ability …

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