Reading, Slowly. Thinking, Loudly.
Late to the party, but new cool books.
I’ve been reading with intention this year, which is another way of saying I’ve been reading slowly and pretending it’s discipline. Sorry for being late to the party, but I must add these books to our list: my top mentions from last year will include "Dream Count" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It’s elegant, sharp, and quietly ambitious — a novel about love, ambition, and the costs of wanting more than one life at once. It lingers, which feels like a compliment these days.
I also spent time with "Slow Poison" by Mahmood Mamdani, which is slower still, but deliberately so. It traces how political violence accumulates over time, not in bursts, but through structures that normalise harm. Not light reading, but necessary reading.
Perhaps on my list this new year is "More than a Crown", Naomie Nishimwe’s memoir. I’m curious about how she frames ambition, visibility, and the labour of being watched. These are things we talk around often, but rarely examine head-on.
And while we’re at it: why did we only just now discover Chacha Imfurikiye?