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Maya in Silent Whispers takes a transformative journey through the uncharted territory of a young girl’s life, where innocence is shattered, and the strength to heal and rise above the darkness of circumstances is discovered. In as small village nestled amidst rolling hills, Maya, a bright-eyed girl filled with dreams and aspirations, find solace in the world of books and learning.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happi...
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne--the life of every party-- who is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York. It now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there.
Neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, how powerful.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite.
It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of that country's fiercest political activists, who just happens to be a global literary giant.
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Z...
'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...'
1960s UGANDA. Hasan struggles to keep his family business afloat following the sudden death of his wife. As he begins to put his shattered life back together piece by piece, a new regime seizes power, and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built.
Present-day LONDON. Sameer, a young high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a heritage he never knew.
Moving between two continents over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is an immensely resonant novel that explores racial tensions, generational divides and what it means to belong.
Travelling While Black By Nanjala Nya...
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move.
What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever?
Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.
Author: Nanjala Nyabola
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the ...
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh is a powerful memoir that chronicles the author’s journey from a nomadic childhood in Somalia to her new life in North America. Through vivid storytelling, Salh shares her experiences of survival, cultural identity, and resilience as she navigates the challenges of war, displacement, and personal growth. This deeply moving account offers a rare insight into Somali traditions, the refugee experience, and the strength of women. A must-read for those interested in African literature, women’s stories, and coming-of-age narratives.
NUBIAN STRUGGLE FOR LAND RIGHTS IN KI...
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
Brief Summary
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Machine’ explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.
Africa: the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planet’s crude oil, 40 per cent of its gold and 80 per cent of its platinum. A third of the earth’s mineral deposits lie beneath its soil. But far from being a salvation, this buried treasure has been a curse.
‘The Looting Machine’ takes you on a gripping and shocking journey through anonymous boardrooms and glittering headquarters to expose a new form of financialized colonialism. Africa’s booming growth is driven by the voracious hunger for natural resources from rapidly emerging economics such as China.
But in the shadows a network of traders, bankers and corporate raiders has sprung up to grease the palms of venal local political elites. What is happening in Africa’s resource states is systematic looting. In country after country across the continent, the resource industry is tearing at the very fabric of society. But, like its victims, the beneficiaries of this looting machine have names.
For six years Tom Burgis has been on a mission to expose corruption and give voice to the millions of Africans who suffer the consequences of living under this curse. Combining deep reporting with an action-packed narrative, he travels to the heart of Africa’s resource states, meeting a warlord in Nigeria’s oil-soaked Niger Delta and crossing a warzone to reach a remote mineral mine in eastern Congo. The result is a blistering investigation that throws a completely fresh light on the workings of the global economy and will make you think twice about what goes into the mobile phone in your pocket and the tank of your car.
ISBN:9780007523108
Author:Tom Burgis
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Brief Summary
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers - a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London Times, reviewing Gurnah's previous novel, "Mr. Gurnah is a very fine writer. I am certain he will become a great one." Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's great novel.
At twelve, Yusuf, the protagonist of this twentieth-century odyssey, is sold by his father in repayment of a debt. From the simple life of rural Africa, Yusuf is thrown into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa - a fascinating world in which Muslim black Africans, Christian missionaries, and Indians from the subcontinent coexist in a fragile, subtle social hierarchy.
Through the eyes of Yusuf, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. Then, just as Yusuf begins to comprehend the choices required of him, he and everyone around him must adjust to the new reality of European colonialism. The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd, but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world.
ISBN:9781565841635
Author:Abdulrazak Gurnah
Moses and the Ghost by Barbara Kimenye
Brief Summary
The NPPE Reading Scheme forms an important part of the New Progressive Primary English (NPPE) course.
There are four readers for each class with each specially written to emphasize specific language skills learnt in the main course.
Here is a reading scheme that offers the modern pupil an excellent mix of graded stories all packed with many exciting things. Now the pupil has fun that's built to last.
ISBN:9780195738551
Author:Barbara Kimenye
Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiongio
The Mau Mau rebellion, as it is often called, which began in Kenya in the early 1950s, was a nationalist, anticolonial armed resistance against the British colonial state.
The guerrilla movement called itself the Kenya Land Freedom Army; the British dubbed the movement “mau mau,” a meaningless name, to obscure the aims otherwise so clear in the resistance army’s name.
Ngugi Wa Thiongío’s Petals of Blood examines, among other things, the betrayal by the postcolonial regime of the ideals of this anticolonial struggle that helped Kenya achieve its independence.
The novel revolves around three men and a woman. The four friends reveal different aspects of their history to each other piecemeal, just as their families had guardedly explained the past to them. The lingering effects of the Mau Mau revolt have affected all their lives and by the end of the novel, each character is wrapped up in his or her own exclusive epiphany about life in Kenya.
Abdullah, the trader, thinks he failed the movement because he did not avenge the death of a friend who was a revolutionary and who was betrayed. Munira, the schoolteacher and eventual wide-eyed prophet, is paralyzed by the shadow of his successful father, who condemned the Mau Mau but aided the crony corruption of independent Kenya. Wanja, the beauty from a broken home, learns that it was two generations of revolutionary fervor that distorted the home she grew up in. And Karega, Thiongío’s union-pushing hero, scrutinizes the history of Mau Mau as if it were a sacred text. Somewhere in that history, they all believe, is the key to wisdom and justice.
Luo proverbs and Sayings by Asenath B...
The Luo Ngeche and other sayings to demonstrate their knowledge and skill in expressing themselves in their language. Ngeche and sayings are adaptable and have many functions. For instance, they may be used ti chide someone to answer a question to illustrate, clarify or to drive home a point made on an issue
Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
Brief Summary
Grappling with a conflict of cultures, the modern or western on one hand and the traditional on the other, it traces the trials of a traditional wife Lawino who is married to a rather mobile, university trained husband, Ocol. Her husband has fallen in love with another woman Clementine, mockingly referred to as Tina who, is not just educated but has taken on the ways of the white people. She is a modern girl.
Lawino, meanwhile, has not been to school. She was never baptized. She can’t dance like the white people and neither can she eat with forks. She is generally a village girl. And her husband Ocol is bitter with her. For this perceived ‘weaknesses,’ Lawino tells us, her husband insults her all the time. This does not stop at her though; Ocol also insults her parents in the process; the black people and all the African ways.
Lawino decides to speak back. The poem moves from her talking back to her husband, in a manner akin to giving counsel to a rather errant man, to reporting him in front of the clan elders. At one point she says, "My friend, age-mate of my brother/ take care” and at another, she says, "My clansmen, I cry, listen to my voice/the insults of my man/Are painful beyond bearing.”
ISBN:9781478604723
Author:Okot p Bitek
PROSPERITY THEOLOGY IN TRANSIT by Lom...
Bantu Beliefs and Magic: An Annotated...
Bantu Beliefs and Magic is a remarkable exploration of the spiritual,cultural, and political traditions of the Agikuyu (Kikuyu) and Akamba peoples of Kenya. Written by C. W. Hobley in 1922, the book preserves a detailed record of indigenous life during a period of profound change under colonial rule. Drawing from years of research and conversations with elders, Hobley examines beliefs about God, ancestral spirits, sacred places, sacrifice, initiation rites, harvest ceremonies, and the customs that guided community life. These traditions reveal a rich worldview in which the spiritual and physical worlds were deeply connected.
The book also explores the role of magic, divination, healers, blacksmiths, curses, and protective rituals. Far from being isolated practices, these beliefs influenced social order, justice, health, and everyday decision-making within the community. Beyond religion and magic, Hobley documents systems of governance, councils of elders, customary law, age-set organizations, warfare, folklore, dances, and the influential role of women. His observations reveal societies with complex institutions and well-established methods of leadership and conflict resolution. Part anthropology, part history, and partcolonial-era record, Bantu Beliefs and Magic offers readers a rare window into precolonial East African life. It remains an important resource for anyone interested in African heritage, traditional belief systems, and the history of Kenya's indigenous communities.
Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in...
FEMI OTEDOLA is one of Africa's greatest philanthropists. The self-made entrepreneur and Forbes-rated billionaire dreamt of his first business before he was ten years old and made his first billion by the age of 41.
Part business book, part memoir, this book charts Otedola's ambition, hard work, successes, challenges and setbacks - from making a billion, to losing a billion to making it back again and, as one of Africa's richest men, settling into a philanthropic role to give back to the continent.
Otedola's role as disruptor in his country's oil industry transformed Forte Oil Plc into one of the highest performing companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious National Honour of "Commander of the Order of the Niger - CON" in recognition of his contributions to the growth of Nigeria's economy and for his philanthropy. He was appointed a vice-president of Save the Children, the UK-based charity in 2021, and he is the chancellor at Augustine University, Epe.
Making It Big is a masterclass in attaining and maintaining a positive mindset and a reminder that it is possible to defy the odds, no matter how stacked they are against you. Packed with personal philosophies and business lessons, this is a book of hope, backed up by solutions, written to inspire entrepreneurs in Africa and from everywhere.