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Return The Bride Price And Other Poem...
The poetry anthology Return The Bride Price And Other Poems by Ayieko Jakoyo is a collection of poems with diverse subject matters ranging from culture, love, marriage and other contemporary issues touching on human life. The thematic and structural diversity by the poems in this anthology makes it a masterpiece for the lovers of poetry. The anthology has a well arranged poetry notes and first five poems well analyzed to suit the standards of Kenya National Examination Council. The book is therefore of great help to secondary students, upcoming poets and lovers of poetry in the entire universe. The author creatively and artistically addresses issues affecting the current society and goes an extra mile to provide a long lasting solution through his artistic work.
Ayieko Jakoyo is a seasoned teacher, a prolific writer of both poetry and prose and an academic strategist. He is a master of descriptions and a literary enthusiast determined to impact positively to the society through his words. His passion for literature was inspired by the old tales of his grandmother, a mantle he is determined to carry on to the next generations.
Eye of the Storm by Yusuf K Dawood
Eye of the Storm is a fast-paced mystery thriller written with hospital background. It is the story of a surgeon tortured by the trauma he suffered in the past.
To release himself from the psychological shackles imposed on him as a result, he turns into a modern-day, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
It is a study of a genius bordering on lunacy and keeps the readers on the edge until the story unravels and the ghastly truth comes out. It makes the reader wonder where the writer is leading to until the climax explodes in the reader's mind making it impossible to put the book down until the storm blows over.
Decolonization and Afro Feminism by S...
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Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” cycle? Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained formal independence, the continent struggles to free itself from the deep legacies of colonialism, imperialism and patriarchy. Many intellectuals, politicians, feminists and other activists, eager to contribute to Africa’s liberation, have frustratingly felt like they took the wrong path.
Analyzed through the eyes of Afro-Feminism, this book revisits some of the fundamental preconditions needed for radical transformation. It challenges the traditional human rights paradigm and its concomitant idea of “gender equality,” flagging instead, the African philosophy of Ubuntu as a serious alternative for reinvigorating African notions of social justice. If you are a student of Africa or in a space where you wish to recalibrate your compass and reboot your consciousness in the struggle for Africa’s liberation, this book is for you.
I Accuse the Press: An Insider’...
The Congo betrayal : the UN-US and Lu...
Luo Girl from Infancy to Marriage by ...
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With the exception of those women who move with their husbands to the towns, the majority of rural married women go through a period of living under the close supervision of their mothers-in-law. The duration of this time depends on the mutual feeling between wife and mother-in-law.
The married woman must learn everything possible about her new family. The mother-in-law tells her about the various sources of food and assists her to fit into her new life in the manner desired. Very often this involves unlearning certain things she has learnt at home. Among other things, she must learn the meal hours and individual tastes of those in the new family, and this brief probationary period gives character to her future relationship with them. At this time a mean woman is soon known by her behaviour; moreover, in the earlier stages of her married life a young wife is constantly accompanied by a companion who reports her general attitude to the family.
Other women in the home may also send her on errands wherever they wish, the idea being to test her character in the communal life of women. Hence unpopularity would have a profound effect upon her, and through her, upon her husband. But although she is under the authority of her mother-in-law or someone occupying the same position, her mother-in-law's actions are also open to censure by the other women. The problem of fitting a wife into this new life is thus a family affair.
Great importance is still attached to the traditional schooling of wives, but modern young women sometimes rebel against this ordered regime, choosing rather to do as they please in their new homes.
ISBN:LuoGirlfromInfancytoMarriage001
Author:Simeon H Ominde
Presidential or Parliamentary Democra...
The essays presented in his new book, Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy in Kenya, underpin the two basic recommendations that he made to the Building Bridges Initiative. They amplify, illustrate and justify in greater detail the need for Kenya to introduce constitutional reforms at this stage in favour of parliamentary government (as opposed to the current presidential system), and proportional representation in the election of legislators at all levels.
On Kenya specifically, the essays touch repeatedly on its immediate post-independence experience that saw the elimination, as elsewhere in Africa, of parliamentary government and its replacement by an autocratic presidentialism, the resistance to one-party rule in the 1990s, the betrayals after the 2002 General Election that were won by Narc, and the electoral crisis thereafter. Lessons in favour of the two basic constitutional reforms are drawn from that diversity of experiences, and theories.
Prof Nyong’o is both a statesman and an intellectual. That is a rare combination of skills in Kenya today compared with where the country (and Africa generally) was in the immediate post-independence period. In those days, Africans debated their most fundamental political and economic development policies against the backdrop of the contours of thought charted by their leaders in government or out of it. One thinks of Tom J. Mboya, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkurumah, Leopold Senghor, Dunduzu Chisiza, Frantz Fanon and many others. It became normal for the first generation of African leaders to commit their thought and policy goals to paper and to invite debate.
The goals of African independence, African identity, national unity, African socialism, strategies of achieving pan-African unity, economic development, inequality, non-alignment in international affairs — all these were subjected to vigorous public debate.
These essays should strengthen the public debate on constitutional reforms now underway in Kenya. In that context, one of the ideas I have fully shared for long with Prof Nyong’o is that of the need to replace the presidential system of government with a parliamentary one because the latter is better suited to an ethnically polarised society like ours. A parliamentary system is no panacea, as he states at one point, but it is far better suited to our politics than the highly divisive majoritarian-based presidentialism.
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters The ...
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died?
And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it.
He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as--and was a direct consequence of--the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive.
Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State.
ISBN:9781586489298
Author:Jason Stearns
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams
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Mine Boy: The First Modern Novel of Black South Africa
First published in 1946, this novel exposed the condition of black South Africans under a white regime.
It presents a portrait of labor discrimination, appalling housing conditions and one man's humanitarian act of defiance.
ISBN:9780435905620
Author:Peter Abrahams
Pocket Guide Insects of East Africa b...
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This book forms part of our growing Pocket Guide series. It will fill a gap in the East African market as there is currently no book on the subject for that region. The book covers close to 400 common and interesting insects found in the region.
The focus will be on identification, but the book will also offer insight into life cycles and interesting behavior among certain insect groups. Full-color images accompany each species entry.
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe
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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war
For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry.
Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature.
A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Chinua Achebe
The Three Wives of Mr. Kinuthia
Behind the walls of the family home in Karen, three women navigate the wreckage of a man's ambition: Tabitha, the first wife, who has kept a dangerous secret for seven years. Priscilla, the second, whose quiet dignity conceals a breaking point. And Loretta, the third — young, vivacious, and already learning what it costs to be chosen by a powerful man.
Retire and Realign: Purpose Beyond th...
From a humble beginning as a son of employees in white settlers' farms in the central Rift Valley, Dr Francis K. Sang overcame many odds to rise through the ranks of the Kenya Police and become the 4th Kenyan Director of the Criminal Investigation Department. He served in this position for 4 years before he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the changeover of government in Kenya at the end of 2002.
He was tasked with the establishment of the Nairobi Secretariat to coordinate issues to do with small arms in the region. This he did and later helped transform the secretariat into the Regional Centre for Small Arms (RECSA), a regional inter-governmental body that coordinates activities aimed at controlling and reducing the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the Eastern Africa, Great Lakes and Horn of Africa region and bordering states.
In this autobiography, he relates his experiences, from the difficult circumstances surrounding his birth and childhood, his struggles to get an education in spite of the many obstacles that he faced and his experiences in the police force, particularly in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) during the tenure of the 2nd President of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi.
He also relates his experiences after the NARC Government took over in 2002 and sent most senior security officers in the former government packing, either on retirement or on transfer to other less prestigious positions. He further relates how, through determination, he has been able to achieve his academic dreams which had been deferred earlier in his life owing to financial constraints, culminating in the acquisition of a PhD late in life.
He also speaks about the role his family has played in enabling him to achieve all he has in his life. Reflecting on his long journey that has brought him to the place where he is today, the author also gives a number of insights on his work and life. This autobiography should serve as interesting reading to the general public as well as to persons serving in the disciplined forces, considering that it is the first from amongst persons that have served in the police force and risen through the ranks to the very top.
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POLITICAL WILL by KHADIJA MOHAMED OMAR
Political Will is a satirical novel about a governor, a pothole, and the people. Set in a fictional town, the story humorously unravels how a single pothole becomes the center of politics, bureaucracy, and public expectation. Through witty narration and absurd yet relatable events, the book explores themes of leadership, accountability, and the endless cycle of promises and projects. It highlights the gap between citizens’ hopes and political realities, showing how infrastructure can symbolize both progress and failure. Ultimately, Political Will is a sharp, funny, and thought-provoking reflection on governance, power, and the elusive nature of true political will.
Chosen By The Gods by Muema Stephen N...
Chosen by the Gods is a spellbinding tale about heritage, true love , sacrifice, persistence and redemption. It's a play that delves into the recesses of the African culture and the tapestry of it's tradition through our main character who has to solve a puzzle that is embroidered in atrocities in order to get the wealth left by his grandfather in a distant land and use it to create a Kingdom as he directed. The book is highly recommended for young people who are inspiring to become great men from grass. It inspires us to embrace Africanicity and cuddle the Ubuntu spirit as we struggle to become better.
WHISPERS IN THE STREETS -Tales of Nai...
Life in Nairobi is a cocktail of contrasts—where the cries of the poor in crowded streets meet the lonely murmurs of the wealthy in palatial homes. From the relentless hustle of the unemployed and the dreamers to the rivalries of touts, stray dogs, politicians, and the ever-present street urchins, this collection delves into the gritty, heart-wrenching, yet humor-filled fabric of Nairobi’s social complexities.
Here, survival is found in the sizzle of mutura on charcoal grills, the smell of roasted chicken parts, and the lively nyama choma dens where the elite feast. It is also in the absurdities of the CBC (Competency-Based Curriculum), where children are expected to bring enough meat to start a mini-butchery for their practicals—never mind that many of them barely have a meal at home. Green foods are ignored, as if Nairobi’s children can thrive on nothing but ribs and roasted thighs.
Meanwhile, single mothers leave before dawn to chase a living, their children left to navigate a world that often demands too much and gives too little. Some find solace in school, others in the streets, where lessons in survival come faster than in a classroom.
Yet, beyond the struggles, Nairobi dazzles. It is a city where hope refuses to die, where strangers share jokes in matatus, and where ambition thrives against all odds. The same streets that test survival also inspire resilience, birthing entrepreneurs, artists, and dreamers who turn adversity into opportunity.
Through these stories, you’ll meet Nairobi’s diverse characters—the hustlers who refuse to quit, the hide-and-seek games between police and matatu drivers, the retirees who have everything but no one, and the broken-hearted searching for solace in a city that gives little but demands much. From politicians who may steal from the people to boda bodas who rewrite traffic rules, from pastors selling anointing oil to high-fliers questioning their own humanity, this book exposes it all.
With biting commentary and dark humor, Whispers in the Streets unearths the untold lives behind the city’s glossy façade. In Nairobi, the streets don’t just whisper; they roar—with contradictions, resilience, and an undying spirit that refuses to be silenced.