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BOOK REVIEW: OTHELLO

TITLE: OTHELLO  AUTHOR: WILLIAMS SHAKESPEARE  ************ Brabantio has been gossiped to by Roderigo that Othello had eloped with his dear daughter. This gossip wasn't out of goodwill to Brabantio but for the fact that he was also lusting after Desdemona- Brabantio's daughter. This he did not without Iago's hand who was Othello's most trusted servant. The news did not meet him well; out of anger, he went to the Duke's chamber to report Othello's act of witchcraft. For he believed that her daughter was enchanted by him.  The duke and the senate in councils were discussing the imminent attack of the Turk on Cyprus, and they summoned Othello being the chiefest general. Brabantio got to the palace before Othello and had already narrated his ordeal to the duke and the senates.  On arrival of Othello, once again he accused him of using enchantment to lure his daughter away from him. Othello did explain how he won her heart without magic or enchan...

THE LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Long walk to freedom  This is a memoir of one of the notable past African leaders; Nelson Mandela. This book chronicle the event of all that happened in his fight together with the other freedom fighters against the apartheid.  He, Nelson Mandela narrated everything that happens from the time he was a child in Transkei village to when he went to live with another family outside his village; how he joined the ANC-African National Congress to the creation of militant groups.  He said that the reason for their struggle was to ensure that it was not only the white minority that would be ruling South Africa. He and the other ANC members believe that black should also have the right to vote and be voted for in South Africa which was not happening at that time.  The children of the black could go to the same school as the whites. He was resolute that no one should be judged by the color of their skins.  The blacks were treated like modern slaves in ...