Tag: The Lazarus Effect
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Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond and Hawa Jande Golakai books now in Nairobi
Hawa Jande Golakai and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond are two West African writers whose books are available in Nairobi’s Bookstop Bookshop. Golakai is a Liberian writer whose debut novel The Lazarus Effect has been doing very well in the African literary scene. The novel follows the exploits of investigative reporter Voinjama “Vee” Johnson in Cape Town, South…
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HJ Golakai’s The Lazarus Effect now in Italian
The Lazarus Effect is a book that was published a few years ago by Liberian Hawa Golakai or HJ Golakai. It is a crime fiction novel about an investigative reporter Voinjama “Vee” Johnson who was born in Liberia but is based in South Africa and how she goes around solving the murder of Jaqueline “Jacqui”…
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A review of Hawa Jande Golakai’s The Lazarus Effect
Book: The Lazarus Effect Author: HJ Golakai Publisher: Kwela Books Year of publication: 2011 Number of pages: 310 Hawa Jande Golakai’s debut novel The Lazarus Effect is what they a “whodunnit”. A young woman called Jaqueline “Jacqui” Paulsen is murdered by an unknown assailant in Cape Town South Africa. She was raised by Adelle Paulsen…