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Moses and the Kidnappers by Barbara K...
Brief Summary
"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.
ISBN:9780195738506
Author:Barbara Kimenye
Moses and the Raffle by Barbara Kimenye
Brief Summary
Moses and his friend King Kong are in trouble, again. They are in serious financial problems and have to come up with a solution pretty fast. Through what he considers a stroke of genius, King Kong comes up with the idea of having a raffle. However, they have nothing to raffle.
In such for a prize, Moses. King Kong. Rukia and Itchy Fingers become involved with a stranger called Nick Molo who offers them a Mercedes Benz car to raffle. There are many exciting moments as the boys set up their raffle. Invite girls from a neighboring school to join them, try to hide their secret from the teachers. And help the police to solve a crime.
Moses and the Raffle is the tenth title of the adventures of Barbara Kimenye's mischievous Ugandan schoolboy.
The Moses Series
Moses Moses and Mildred Moses in Trouble Moses and the Kidnappers Moses in a Muddle
Moses and the Ghost Moses on the Move Moses and the Penpal Moses and the Penpal Moses and the School Farm
ISBN:2010141000227
Author:Barbara Kimenye
Imperial Reckoning The Untold Story o...
Brief Summary
Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - and to portray them as sub-human savages.
From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. Until now these events have remained untold, largely because the British government in Kenya destroyed most of its files. For the last eight years Caroline Elkins has conducted exhaustive research to piece together the story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors.
Britain's Gulag reveals what happened inside Kenya's detention camps, as well as the efforts to conceal the truth. Now, for the first time, we can understand the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.
ISBN:9780805080018
Author: Caroline Elkins
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Ad...
They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.
Gardening in Eastern Africa by Kenya ...
This is a practical guide book to gardening in the Eastern Africa region.
This practical guide to gardening in Eastern African region covers topics ranging from growing fruit and vegetables (including many local species) and gardening with indigenous plants, to ideas for designing your garden, and what to grow if you live in an apartment.
It contains many drawings and diagrams as well as nearly one thousand full color photographs.
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Afric...
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces.
In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business.
And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
Trailblazer: Breaking Through in Keny...
As a child during the Mau Mau Emergency, Peter Kuguru personally witnessed scenes of horrific brutality. He and his family experienced great hardship and upheaval as the British colonial regime acted ruthlessly to crush the freedom movement.
As Peter made his way slowly through school at this terrible time, he must have despaired about his future prospects in life. But the euphoria of Independence and the promise it held, coupled with the values of hard work and education insistently drilled into him by his father, encouraged him to dream big.
From a young schoolboy paparazzo snapping pictures of his schoolmates for a few cents, to the courageous and far-sighted industrialist who dared to tackle Coca Cola head-on, Peter Kuguru has travelled a trailblazing journey. At the same time he has never forsaken a fundamental, heartfelt personal commitment to improving the welfare of the people of Mathira.
It was this dedication that led him to follow his father, a powerful oak of a man, into politics. Now, in this book, for the first time, a candidate in a Kenyan Parliamentary Election discloses the tricks, deceit and skullduggery that tragically characterize campaigns at the grassroots.
These corrupt, dirty, evil and underhand maneuvers have transformed our electoral process into a mere travesty of democracy, destroying the credibility of many politicians in the eyes of the trusting wananchi. This fascinating and revealing book has much to teach our budding industrialists, while leaving our political class with a great deal both to be ashamed of and to change radically and immediately.
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa T...
By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife.
Even as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as very much the apple of his mother’s eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning. In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture; the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor.
And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya’s independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him. Dreams in a Time of War speaks to the human right to dream even in the worst of times. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
NOLUTHANDO by Lengwe Samuel
Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites...
In Seeking Sexual Freedom, Sekyiamah takes readers across the African continent, from Senegal to Tanzania and beyond, where she meets and trains with gurus, “witches”, and aunties whose job it is to guide girls through puberty rites and later through “marital training.” She discusses practices like beading and pulling, while highlighting the spiritual and gender-fluid nature of African traditional religions. With the “interruption” of colonialism, Sekyiamah explores why we have lost our way, how western patriarchal norms led to our warped ideals of beauty and shame, internalized racism, as well as to state and interpersonal violence. Sankofa, she explains, can help rid us of these obstacles that stand in the way of our sexual liberation. Using practical advice and prompts, Sekyiamah concludes this adventure by giving us the tools we need to establish a more joyful and free sexual practice of our own.
The Maasai Girl who dared to Dream by...
If You Must hide – a Novel by A...
Nadia is intimately familiar with pain.
She has learned how to minimise it, manage it, explain it away-and keep moving forward. Loving others has always meant asking for little and giving much.
But after a traumatic night lands her in the hospital with an injured ankle, the careful balance she's maintained begins to unravel. Forced into stillness, Nadia starts confronting questions she has avoided for years-about devotion, self-sacrifice, and the quiet ways love can become heavy.
What follows is overwhelming. And tender. And strange. And deeply transformative.
If You Must Hide is a slow-burn contemporary romance about love as a place-where being fully seen feels safer than disappearing, where healing is messy, and where being wanted can feel liberating rather than demanding. Set against a richly familiar modern Nigerian backdrop, it is a story about choosing softness without losing yourself.
Musings of the village idiot: Reflect...
Joe O. Oundo is a reflective writer, social observer, and memoirist whose work explores faith, work, family, civic responsibility, and the quiet lessons of ordinary life often by asking the questions polite society prefers to skip. Drawing from African communal traditions, personal experience, and years of public service, his writing blends moral clarity with humility and warmth.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Microbiology and has dedicated his professional career to Biomedical Research Institutions, serving as a Biomedical Research Scientist, Laboratory Director, and public health specialist. Additionally, he has held academic positions. In his writing, however, he steps away from titles and authority, choosing the posture of listening rather than pronouncing, and curiosity over certainty. Musings of the Village Idiot belongs to his wider body of reflective work examining what remains when titles are set aside and one returns, thoughtfully, to the village path.
In Musings of the Village Idiot, Joe O. Oundo offers a series of reflective essays on life as it is lived, faith as it is questioned, and society as it quietly reveals itself. With humility, wit, and moral clarity, he writes about work and retirement, belief and doubt, parenting and power, grief and gratitude and the everyday truths we learn to look away from.
The White Man’s Prostitute by P...
What happens when power is borrowed and freedom is only an illusion?
The White Man’s Prostitute exposes modern domination disguised as partnership—where dependency is sold as development and sovereignty is reduced to performance. It reveals how African leadership, often with the silent consent of its people, continues to submit to external powers shaping policies, economies, and futures from afar.
Provocative and unsettling, this book challenges readers to question who truly decides, who benefits—and warns of the cost of kneeling too long.
Barua kwa Moyo Wangu
- Dunia inapita kwa Kasi sana. Wakati nao hausimami. Jua nalo lakimbia. Ni hali hizi na nyingine ambazo zimemfanya binadamu kujipata katika tanzu zinazotatiza na changamoto changamano chungu nzima. Maradhi, siasa duni, ufisadi, dhiki, ushirikina, mateso, chuki, mauti, vita, elimu, uongozi mbaya, utamaduni, kisasi, wivu, ubaguzi, ugatuzi, afya, ulevi, shinikizo, bidii, ari, hiari, uvumilivu, subira, ufanisi, ushindi na mapenzi ni baadhi tu ya mambo yanayomkabili mlimwengu katika dunia yake.
Swahili State and Society by Ali Mazrui
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company.
Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle would last for decades and come at a steep price.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.