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Memoirs of a Lagos Baker by Tolulope ...
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The Lagos Flash Fiction Series: Hilarious. Heartfelt. Unapologetically Nigerian.
Step into the vibrant, chaotic, and unforgettable world of Lagos through this addictive series of flash fiction collections. From the front seat of a ride-hailing cab to the bustling corridors of a new-generation bank, from luxury bakeries to lavish weddings (and the drama they invite), The Lagos Flash Fiction Series captures the city’s pulse through the eyes of everyday professionals caught in extraordinary moments.
Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng
Full of heart and humour, Gothataone Moeng's first collection, set between the rural village of Serowe and the thrumming capital city of Gaborone, captures a chorus of voices from a country in flux.
Meet a young woman who has worn the same mourning clothes for almost a year, and a teenage girl who shies away from the room where her once vibrant aunt lies dying. Elsewhere, watch as a younger sister hides her romantic exploits from her family while her older brother openly flaunts his infidelities, and a traveller returns home laden with confusion and shame.
Moeng, part of a new generation of writers coming out of Africa whose work is exploding onto the literary scene, offers us an insight into communities, experiences and landscapes through these cinematic stories peopled with unforgettable female protagonists.
The Lagos Flash Fiction Series: Books...
The Lagos Flash Fiction Series: Hilarious. Heartfelt. Unapologetically Nigerian.
Step into the vibrant, chaotic, and unforgettable world of Lagos through this addictive series of flash fiction collections. From the front seat of a ride-hailing cab to the bustling corridors of a new-generation bank, from luxury bakeries to lavish weddings (and the drama they invite), The Lagos Flash Fiction Series captures the city’s pulse through the eyes of everyday professionals caught in extraordinary moments.
Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby ...
There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediate yes.
That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake.
But after one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is enough to forget what's between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering.
Green Lives of Malilia by Leonard Ronoh
The book weaves events that unfold in the run up to a major eviction in Kenya. The irony of environmental conservation at the expense of human sacred nature is aptly unravelled in this debut novel penned by Leonard Ronoh, a Literature teacher.
Sociopolitical issues are interwoven, presenting characters seeking identity and struggling to cross serious hurdles of life, yet maintaining the residue of hope in every ounce of such hapless of conditions.
It is a recommendable read to every lover of literature as the art of expression and reflection of the society.
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins
AN EPIC NOVEL SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 1980S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS WE GO TO LIVE AND LOVE BEYOND OUR LIMITS.
In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists John Griffin and Lydia Danes; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.
Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting listeners to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love – this time among the stars.
The Little Liar: A Novel by Mitch Albom
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,” where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.
But when the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into a boxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them—and everyone he knows and loves—to their doom at Auschwitz.
Nico escapes—but he never tells the truth again.
In The Little Liar, Mitch Albom examines the human repercussions of deception by interweaving the stories of Nico, who yearns for forgiveness; his older brother, Sebastian, who vows revenge against him; Fannie, the girl who must choose between them; and Udo Graf, the Nazi officer who forever changed their lives with his lies.
Through the war years, the concentration camps, and the decades that follow, Albom reveals the consequences of each person’s honesty and dishonesty, bringing them back to where it all started in a staggering climax worthy of the best of Albom’s internationally embraced stories.
Mdunguaji by Hussein Issa
Wapiganaji kumi, wakiwemo Watanzania watatu, wanaounda kikosi maalum cha jeshi la Umoja wa Mataifa kilichotumwa kulinda amani nchini Sierra Leone, wanashambuliwa na mdunguaji aliyejificha katika msitu walikokuwamo. Sita kati yao wanauawa, mmoja baada ya mwingine, kwa kudunguliwa na mdunguaji huyo hatari. Ni Mtanzania mmoja tu ndiye anayerudi nchini akiwa hai, huku akirejesha nyumbani miili ya wapiganaji wawili waliouawa na mdunguaji huko Sierra Leone, Miaka mitatu baadaye, mpiganaji aliyeshinda vita vingi vya msituni, Baddi Gobbos, anajikuta akikabiliana na vita vingine katikati ya jiji la Dar pale anapojikuta akiwindwa na wauaji asiowajua. Je, mdunguaji wa Sierra Leone kaingia Tanzania? Wakati huo huo Baddi Gobbos anajikuta akiwa mateka aliyeshindwa katika vita vigumu kuliko vyote alivyowahi kukabiliana navyo maishani mwake... vita vya mapenzi...
Uchororo wa Tanzanite by Wilbard Makene
Alex, afisa usalama, anapenyezwa Wizara ya Madini kufichua kinachoendelea katika upotevu tata wa mapato ya Taifa ndani ya biashara ya madini ya Tanzanite. Anaambulia taarifa kiduchu.
Kitendawili kinabaki, ni kina nani wanahusika na biashara hii haramu kimataifa?
Kutegua kitendawili, Alex anaondolewa wizarani na kutumwa kwenye misheni ya siri. Lengo ni kufichua mtandao ili hatimaye Taifa lipate kuudhibiti Uchochoro mzima wa Tanzanite. Alex anakutana na mauaji, usaliti, visasi na ukatili kutoka kwa magenge ya wahalifu ya kimataifa.
Maji Mandiga by Mohammed Hammie
Maji ni mhimili wa maisha. Si rahisi kutambua hili kwa kina na mapana stahiki katika maisha ambayo maji yanapatikana. Katika kisa hiki, mwandishi anatufungulia dirisha la kuona msururu wa tabu na visa vya kusikitisha anavyokumbana navyo mwanamke. Hili linatokea kwa kuwa anayatafuta maji penye uhaba mkubwa, mazingira duni na kukithiri kwa mila na desturi kandamizi. Kutana na mwanamke, Mandiga, upate kufahamu maisha ambayo mwanamke katika kijiji duni cha Kiafrika anapitia.
Gamba la Nyoka by Euphrase Kezilahabi
Gamba la Nyoka ni riwaya inayosawiri mapambano kati ya dola na wananchi wa hali ya chini waliogomea utekelezaji wa mifumo ya uzalishaji mali iliyowalazimisha kuondoka katika maisha na maeneo waliyoyafahamu baada ya ukombozi. Mwandishi anaangazia namna dola ilivyotumia mabavu kupambana na wakulima wa kawaida ambao hawakukubaliana na uamuzi wa kuwahamisha kutoka katika makazi yao ya jadi na kuwapeleka katika vijiji "vilivyopangwa." Ni riwaya inayoangazia pupa za kisiasa katika kufanya uamuzi, na athari zake kwa watu wa kawaida. Unjozi wa mawanio ya kujenga mfumo mpya vijijini unaoneshwa, na hali kadhalika vikoa vya upinzani, baadhi vikiwa ndani ya makanisa na baadhi ndani ya serikali yenyewe. Mbali na uhalisia huo, riwaya inaeleza pia falsafa ya mwandishi kuhusu maisha na ubaho, kuhusu dini, imani na Mungu, na kuhusu mabadiliko na mageuzi duniani.
Mzingile by Euphrase Kezilahabi
Mzingile ni novela (riwaya fupi) ya kifalsafa na kibaadausasa iliyochapishwa kwa mara ya kwanza mwaka 1991. Riwaya hii ni pacha ya ile ya Nagona (1990). Riwaya hii inasawiri chimbuko, maendeleo, maangamizi na kuzaliwa upya kwa dunia kutokana na fujo za wanadamu.
Kakulu, mhusika kiini wa novela hii, anasemekana kuwa alizaliwa kiajabuajabu, na umbo lake na maisha yake kwa jumla yalikuwa ni ya kushangaza na kutatanisha, yakihusishwa na matukio ya ajabu na uwezo usio wa kawaida aliosadikiwa kuwa nao. Hatimaye Kakulu anajitenga na jamii na kwenda kuishi peke yake juu ya kilima, lakini watu hawamwachi kwa amani kama anavyotaka, bali wanaendelea kumfuata na kumsujudia na kumhusisha na mambo ambayo yeye anasema hahusiki nayo. Hata baada ya karne nyingi bado watu wanamwamini na kumsujudia. Kwa njia hii kisasili cha Kakulu kinaundwa na uvumi unageuka kuwa ukweli. Unapotokea msiba unaodhaniwa kumhusu, anatumwa mjumbe (Msimulizi) kwenda kumtafuta Kakulu kumwarifu juu ya msiba huo. Safari hiyo ya karne nyingi inageuka kuwa msako wa utambuzi na ufunuo, na kuishia katika amagedoni inayoifuta dunia kongwe na kuasisi dunia mpya iliyo nje ya duara la Kakulu.
Hii ni hadithi ya kifalsafa inayosaili simulizi kuu zinazotawala duniani, ikiwamo ile ya kuumbwa, kuanguka na kukombolewa kwa dunia. Riwaya hii inatuchochea kuyatazama kwa jicho jipya yale tuliyozoea kuyafikiria kuwa kweli isiyosailika, zikiwamo imani za dini, siasa na sayansi. Ni hadithi inayoifikisha riwaya ya Kiswahili katika kiwango cha juu cha tafakuri na sanaa. Inafaa kusomwa na kila binadamu anayejali asili na hatima ya ulimwengu huu na watu wake.
Kichwamaji by Euphrase Kezilahabi
Kichwamaji ni riwaya inayosawiri tabaka la vibwanyenye wasomi na warasimu, ambao elimu yao ya kimagharibi imewapumbaza na kuwakengeusha, hivyo kuwa mbali na jamii zao. Elimu hii inakuwa ni chanzo cha mgogoro mkubwa baina ya kizazi cha vijana na kizazi cha wazee. Matokeo ya ukengeufu huu ni kuangamia si tu kwa vijana wenyewe bali hata kizazi chao.
Simu ya Kifo by Faraji Katalambulla
Mzee Jacob anafariki ghafla akiwa nyumbani kwake. Uchunguzi unabajnisha kuwa amefariki kwa kuvuta sigara yenye sumu. Siku chache baadaye, binti yake, Mary anapigwa risasi. Msururu wa vifo unaendelea kutokea mbali ya kuwa inspekta Wingo anajitahidi kufuatilia kwa karibu kuweza kubaini chanzo na mhusika wa mauaji haya. Mbaya zaidi, kila kifo kinapotokea, FAMBO anampigia inspekta Wingo simu na kumtaarifu kuwa punde si punde fulani atafariki.
Je, inspekta Wingo anaweza kutegua kitendawili na kuzuia kifo kinachotazamiwa kutokea? Na je, FAMBO ni nani hadi afahamu yajayo? Na je, anahusika katika mauaji haya?
Sarafu ya Gavana by Wilbard Makene
Watu wasiojulikana katika nchi ya Weusi Kusini, wanapambana vikali kumshambulia Gavana wa nchi hiyo, bwana Bongo kwa lengo la kummaliza. Katika hali ya kushangaza, vyombo vya usalama vya nchi ya Weusi Kusini, ambavyo vilipaswa kumpa ulinzi Gavana, vinasuasua kufanya hivyo. Hofu na mashaka vinatamalaki kichwani mwa Gavana; mnyororo wa maswali unajirefusha kichwani mwake.
Ndipo anapoibuka Elvis Madiba, kijana machachari kutoka ndani ya vyombo vya usalama. Anamfuata Gavana na kumwachia sarafu. Huo ndiyo unakuwa mwanzo wa kuibuka chuki na uhasama, visasi na uhalifu, minyukano, nk
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide ...
It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow.
Nothing touches this abandoned wilderness except the Great Trans-Siberian Express, an impenetrable train built to carry cargo across continents but which now transports anyone who dares to cross the shadowy Wastelands.
On to the platform steps a curious cast of characters: a grieving woman with a borrowed name, a famous child born on the train and a disgraced naturalist, all heading for the Great Exhibition in Moscow.
But the old rules are changing, and there are whispers that the train isn't safe. As secrets begin to unravel, the passengers and crew must survive their journey through the Wastelands together - even as something uncontrollable seems to be breaking in . . .
Diwani ya Watetezi wa Kiswahili by Wa...
Hiki ni kitabu kilichotungwa na watu wa tajiriba, weledi, jinsi, elimu, umri na mitazamo tofauti. Matokeo yake, mashairi yaliyomo ndani ya Diwani hii yana nakshi na ladha changamani kama ilivyo kwa watunzi wake. Meza imeshaandikwa tayari. Karibu kwenye kiti. Unaposoma kitabu, ni kama kula vyakula vyenye ladha tofauti kutoka kwa wapishi mbalimbali waliobobea kwenye kazi yao. Karibu uvumbue na kujitwalia ukwasi wa kisanaa kutoka kwa Waswahili wenyewe.