Blue Night Books

25/01/2026

We Are All Birds of Uganda – Hafsa Zayyan.

Rooted in East Africa and reaching across generations, this powerful debut moves between 1960s Uganda and present-day London to tell a story that feels familiar to our region — of home, upheaval, and memory. Hafsa Zayyan captures the quiet weight of history, especially the Asian expulsion from Uganda, and how its echoes live on in families long after borders have been crossed.

This is a novel about belonging in a place shaped by movement, resilience, and survival. Thoughtful, restrained, and deeply humane, We Are All Birds of Uganda speaks to East Africa’s shared past and its lasting imprint on identity.

A bit heavy reading it at the backdrop of Uganda’s recent elections on 15th January, and the political burden Bobi Wine’s family has had to bear.

Makes you appreciate the little effort being put across by journalist such as Larry Madowo, speaking truth to power.

04/01/2026

Fun facts about reading.

03/01/2026

Fun facts about reading

2/10: Reading fiction makes you more empathetic.

Stories let us live other lives, feel other pains, and see the world through unfamiliar eyes.
That’s how empathy is built.

02/01/2026

Fun facts about reading

1/10: Your brain can’t tell reading from real life.

When you read about emotions or actions, the same brain areas activate as if you’re experiencing them. Books quietly train your mind for life.

01/01/2026

16/11/2025

If there’s one thing I’d advise anyone to do, it’s reading. Read, please, read as many books as possible.

And whenever you can, write. Writing is how you pay the debt to those whose books you’re reading.

16/11/2025

Current Read

15/11/2025

EGO IS THE ENEMY hits like a cold splash of truth. Ryan Holiday strips away the illusions we hide behind; talent, ambition, success, and shows how ego quietly sabotages all of it.

It’s a book that confronts you, corners you, and demands your honesty.

Every chapter is a reminder that the greatest victories are won not by shouting louder, but by mastering yourself.

It’s sharp, humbling, and impossible to ignore.

A book with recommending.

17/04/2025

Types of ideas:

“Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas - probably most - will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge…..

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication (theories), ideas not derived from any systematic process (visions), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process (illusions), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process (myths), ideas which have already passed authentication process (facts), as well as ideas known to have failed - or certain to fail - such processes (falsehoods - both mistakes and lies).”

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Knowledge and Decisions
Thomas Sowell
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13/04/2025

On the importance of feedback, in Knowledge and Decisions, Thomas Sowell makes several key arguments in his preface:

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One particular kind of safety may be achieved by creating vastly greater dangers of another kind, as when pesticides are banned to eliminate their residual dangers in the environment, at the cost of a thousand-fold increase in the incidence of deadly, insect-borne diseases, such as malaria.

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