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Books
Good Business Reads
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R.
Covey presents a holistic, integrated approach to solving
personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights
and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step
pathway for living a life of fairness, integrity, honesty, and
dignity; principles that give us the security to adapt to change
and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the oppor-
tunities that change creates.
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes
From A Street-Smart Executive
By Mark H. McCormack
Listen to Mark McCormack as he tells you how to read
people, create the right first impression, take the leading
edge and run meetings. Based on his proven method of
applied people sense to get things done, McCormack
presents powerful street-smart insights into successful selling;
sharing his experience, technique, and wisdom in a practical,
how-to manner. You will never do business the same way
after reading this book.
Great African Reads
There Was a Country: A
Personal History of Biafra
By Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe’s memoir
of the Biafran War; one of
modern Africa’s most disas-
trous events.
Mission to Kala
By Mongo Beti
A satire about the
adventures of Medza,
a young man sent to a
remote village of colonial
Cameroon to retrieve the
runaway wife of his cousin.
So Long a Letter
By Mariama Bâ
An intense and poised novel
in the form of a letter written
by Ramatoulaye, who has
recently been widowed.
Weep Not, Child
By Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A novel about the effects
of the infamous Mau Mau
uprising on the lives of
ordinary men and women,
and on one family in
particular.
