Oxford University Press East Africa

It's half-term. Most of the boys at Mukibi's Educational Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen are going home for the holiday, but Moses and King Kong have a better plan. Why not sneak off and spend the weekend in Tororo, the nearby town, and have some fun by themselves while the staff think they're at home and their families think they are at school? n nIt's a great idea, but, as so often happens with the two friends' great ideas, things tend to go a bit wrong. First of all they meet Finito, a seedy-looking old man, but he's in a remarkably interesting line of business, and he offers the boys a well-paying job. It isn't really their fault that Finito shortly finds his business in ruins and himself on the run from the police. The boys too have their own problems: Mr Karanja, the school's deputy headmaster, is hot on their trail. n n'Moses on the Move' is the seventh title in the adventures of Barbara Kimenye's mischievous Ugandan schoolboy.

The craze for writing to penpals sweeps Mukibi's Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen. Anywhere else, this would be a harmless enough hobby but at Mukibi's, even a letter can be dynamite. And, not surprisingly, Moses and King Kong are right in the middle of the explosion. n nThen there is the new boy, Kasali, who has an unusual hobby of his own. Hidden in the dormitory, he's set up a strange contraption for making wine. Everyone in Dorm 3 agrees it is very good wine, and that Kasali has a bright future ahead of him in the liquor business. Perhaps he has ... but before Kasali's wine makes him a fortune, it's destined to play a remarkable role in the history of Mukibi's Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen. n n'Moses and the Penpal' is the eighth title in the adventures of Barbara Kimenye's mischievous Ugandan schoolboy.

The day King Kong and I were kidnapped started off like any other Saturday."

So writes Moses, Uganda's most notorious schoolboy, at the start of his yet another wild adventure.

The deputy headmaster, Mr Karanja, has decided that the two friends must have their hair cut. They spend a pleasant morning in town, enjoying the freedom from Mukibi's Educational Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen - until a sleek Mercedes Benz appears and their 'holiday' comes to an abrupt end. Their hairstyle thrusts them deep into the criminal underworld and they only escape being sold into slavery by the skin of their teeth.

This is the fourth of Moses' witty chronicles of life in Uganda's most awful school.

Moses Kibaya has just been expelled from his sixth school. Quite a record for a fifteen-year-old, he feels, and in a way, he is rather proud of it. In fact, his only worry is what his Uncle Silasi is going to do about it ... n nHe soon finds out. And with his arrival at his seventh school, Mukibi's Educational Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen, Moses' troubles begin. n n'Moses' is the first title in the adventures of Barbara Kimenye's mischievous Ugandan schoolboy.