The Kenya Bankers Association in partnership with Kenyan Wallstreet, Strathmore Business School, and New Faces New Voices Kenya, a Graca Machel Network for women in Finance recently launched the Amari Book Club.
The goal of the Amari Book Club is to build a community of both men and women in the financial services sector and facilitate leadership development through mentorship and networking.
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We’ve compiled a list of inspiring leadership books recommended by Africa’s leading professionals in the banking and finance who were also speakers a the recent virtual women in banking and finance conference that was geared towards spearheading gender diversity in top leadership.
We hope these books will help inform, equip, and encourage you to become vehicles for change whoever and wherever you are.
In this article
Dr. Nancy Onyango’s Recommendations
- Women & Growth, Finance & Development: A Quarterly Publication of the International Monetary Fund March 2019, Volume 56, Number 1
- Invisible Women: Bridging the Gender Data Gap in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Top 3 Books
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 
The courage to be Rich 
Mind Over Money by Louise Fourie and Graeme Codington.
Others
- Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach
- Anger Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
- The Kite Runner Khalied Khomeini
Sekou Owino’s Recommendations
List from Book Club 26 Members
World 3.0- Global Prospects & How to Achieve it- Pankaj Ghemawat 
The Globalisation Paradox- Democracy & the Future of the World Economy- Dani Rodrick 
Democracy- Stories on the long road to Freedom – Condoleezza. Rice 
The Signal & The Noise- Nate Silver 
Plutocrats- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich- by Chrystia Freeland
Ideas in Contention
In Defense of a Liberal Education- Fareed Zakaria 
23 Things they do not tell you about Capitalism- Ha-Joon Chang 
A Country is not a Company- Paul Krugman
Innovators and Movers
Da Vinci- Waltyer Isaacson 
Einstein- Walter Isaacson 
Innovators – Walter Isaacson 
Steve Jobs- Walter Isaacson 
The Wright Brothers- David Mc. Cullough 
Highest Duty- My search for what really Matters-Chelssley Sullenberger
Innovators in Organisations
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation- J. Gertner
- The Everything Store; Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon- Brad Stone
Firechats for the Professional
- Lean In :Women, Work & the Will to lead- Sheryl Sandberg
- Outliers: The story of Success- Malcolm Gladwell
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things Right- Atul Gawande
- Better: A Surgeon’s Notes pon Performance- Atul Gawande
- How To Think Like a Freak: – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
- Executing Your Strategy: How to break it Down and Get it Done- Mark Moryan, R. Levitt & William Malek
- The Road to Character- David Brooks
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Wealth, Health & Happiness-R. Thaler & C. Sunstein
Africa
The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence- Martin Meredith 
Dead Aid- Dambisa Moyo
Maserame Mouyeme’s Recommendations
Maserame Mouyeme, Director of Corporate Communication, Old Mutual
Maserame’s Top Reads
Nice girls don’t get the corner office – Unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers; Lois P Frankel, first edition 2004 
Execution – the discipline of getting things done; Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan; 2002 
I’d like to buy the world a Coke- The life and leadership of Roberto Goizueta; David Greising; 1997
Rekha Mhango’s Recommendations
The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 
Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
Diane Karusisi’s Recommendations
Dr Diane’s Top Reads
The Wisdom of Finance- Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mihir A. Desai 
Beyond Performance- How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage by Colin Price and Scott Keller Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Patricia Okelo’s Recommendations
Patricia’s Top Reads
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai 
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight 
BadBlood – Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Hedwige Nuyens Recommendations
Hedwige’s Top Reads
Give and Take by Adam Grant 
Feel the fear and do it anyway by Susan Jeffers 
Factfulness by Anna, Ola & Hans Rosling
Esther Chibesa
Esther’s Top Reads
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