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WAYWARD EASTLANDERS by Okanga Ooko
In the hustles of Eastlands, nobody wins. One dame is desperate and calculatingly manipulative. The other is a gash who just makes hash of the arrogant male romantic interest through her offhand sexuality. This is a story about misfits. An ugly woman who is a wall climber, a cripple in a wheelchair who calls the shots, a pastor who is a big con, a shylock who wants to be an MP.
Atieno Mara Bella owns AMBA Advertising. She is an artist and designer whose struggles with her work, doubts about her talent, and complicated relationships often puts her at odds over affections associated with men. Akombe Bosibori is a backstabbing marketer who wants to take over the company. She has designed a campaign for a multi-million national disability project. Funds are given through pre-qualified advertising agencies to raise awareness in the low income areas of Nairobi. However the whole thing is orchestrated by a man in a wheelchair, the flamboyant Tutu Kulundeng, the beetle. A genius with a reputation as an organiser of grand schemes for the cartel-run Government. And in Nairobi, Kenya, corruption is king. He wants an existing advertising agency to take over and use it to siphon millions from the government. Using the scrawny underdog, Kiprotich, he knows how to manipulate Bosibori.
Realising that they are each losing, Atieno and Bosibori place their bet on four unreliable characters: Atieno on Papa Kamande, a shylock, a shark—a money lender, auctioneer and broker, who also runs a matatu cartel, and on Ojuku, a ghetto thug. Bosibori places hers on Kulundeng and then on Pastor Otodo, a fake two-timing preacher who runs a church in Jerusalem, Nairobi, who sees her as a way out of poverty and brainwashes with intent to get her to take over AMBA and add it to his wealth as an assets of his church. Kulundeng, Otodo, Kamande and Ojuku think they know the ropes; and women. Maybe they do. But they don’t know Atieno too well, otherwise they’d have realised that they are just flies stumbling into the deadly web of a woman who is beautiful to look at but lethal to mess with.
The perfect nine: the epic of Gikuyu ...
Brief Summary
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world.
In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice.
Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”
Wakhaba Will Marry: Friendship, Fallo...
One stolen kiss before departing for college sets Wakhaba's heart on an unexpected course. As he builds his career in Nairobi, Wakhaba moves through relationships that seem perfect on paper—the ambitious Zalika, the sophisticated Elyaka—yet something essential remains missing. Through years of success, heartbreak, and self-discovery, the simple touch of his childhood friend persists, defying time and distance. When circumstances bring Anaya back into his life, Wakhaba must confront the choice between the successful life and image he has built and the persistent whispers of his heart. Set against Kenya's changing social landscape, this compelling tale asks whether time will finally align with what Wakhaba’s heart has always known. Because sometimes the longest journey leads right back to where it began.
Claim Your Mental Freedom by Saadia A...
Mental Freedom is an underrated pre-requisite of success. The ability to Re- Write scripts that guide you is the first step towards succeeding in what you set to do. Claim your Mental Freedom will spark awareness in you (as a reader) that root cause of your problems is the scripts you never questioned. Gain power to Rewrite your scripts. Mental Freedom 🧠
LAANA: Daughter of the Middle World b...
Laana is known as The Cursed One among her people.
This story is set in the Kingdom of Mema, at a time when the gods choose those who could speak of their wishes.
Laana is sighted but above all, she can travel the world of the living, the dead and those in between.
She has learned to lurk in the shadows until she catches the attention of Mema's only Prince, Jabali.
Whispers by Bramwel Saisi
Bound by The Absence of Love by Elena...
Do you know someone who drinks too much?
Or a family where domestic violence is the norm?
Maybe someone who killed themselves?
Do you ever wonder how the children of that family handled all of that and how they are doing now?
If you answered Yes, to 3 of the above questions, Bound by the Absence of Love is the book you have been looking for.
Urathi wa Cege wa Kibiru by D. Kinuth...
Ibuku rīīrī rīna rīa Ūrathi wa Cege wa Kībirū rīna ūhoro woothe wa mūrathi mūhe gītīīyo na Agīkūyū, kuma gūciarwo gwake, gūkūra, kūrua gwake, ona ūrīa aanjirie kūratha na maūndū marīa aarathire na marīa marīīkītie kūhiinga. Ibiku rīīrī rīna moothathi mangī maingi ma arathi Agīkūyū, nyīmbo cia tene, marebeta na ngano.
Written in gīīgīkūyū, this book is about the renown prophet of the Agīkūyū, Cege wa Kībirū - commonly known as 'Mūgo wa Kībirū'.
Read about his childhood, how he started prophesying, all his prophecies, their interpretation and which ones have come to pass. This book also features prophecies from other Agīkūyū prophets, proverbs, songs among other stories.
Journey Through Her Twenties by Shang...
Each year in your twenties changes you.
For Joeni, an only child raised in sunlit Mombasa, her twenties unfold in waves — of pain, love, friendship, identity and healing.
Living with Endometriosis while navigating family expectations, strained friendships, cultural pressure, heartbreak and rediscovery, Joeni learns that growing up is not a straight path—it is a tide. Some years pull her under. Some years carry her forward.
From quiet resilience to bold love, from discipline to desire, from loneliness to belonging, Journey Through Her Twenties tells the intimate story of a woman becoming.
Tender, culturally rooted and emotionally honest, this debut novel by Shangwe T. Khalwale explores womanhood along the Kenyan coast — where the sea remembers everything.
BANDA’S WAR by Franz Owano
The origin of sin. Right and wrong. The eternal conflict between good and evil. Are our actions products of predeterminism or free will?
Questions Ariel, a fallen angel burdened by centuries of guilt; grapples with to no avail, until he meets a human girl.
Through her, he becomes Banda and sets forth on a new path. But is a demon capable of atonement or is he beyond redemption?
When I learned how to walk and other ...
Brief Summary
'When I learned how to walk & other poems', is a compilation of 17 poems written by myself (I have been a performing spoken word poet in Nairobi for the past 5 years, and this is my debut poetry book).
The poems in this book span a wide range of topics, from African power, love, identity, mental health, and the inevitability of heartbreak.
The book is a small one, 61 pages, however, it contains poems that are meant to be re-read as many times as the reader wishes. The book is largely in English, and contains a few lines in Swahili, with one of the poems being entirely in Swahili.
ISBN:9789914700473
Author: Mumbi Macharia
Wema by Wamugi Gichuri
Mandate of the People by Margaret A O...
Brief Summary
During the election time in Migodi, Leo Adam Agade, a hitherto unknown breed of politician in the region, campaigns on a platform of honesty, but runs into the menacing opposition of his adversary.
Worldreader presents this e-book in a new series showcasing fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you a worldreader? Read more about this not-for-profit social enterprise at worldreader.org.
Blossoms of the Savannah by H. R. Ole...
Brief Summary
Blossoms of the Savannah follows the lives of two young sisters on the verge of womanhood. Taiyo and Resian both become aware of the conflict between their personal dreams and their duty to the Nasila tradition and culture. H. R. Ole Kulet addresses the elusive concerns of female genital mutilation and early marriages among the Maa community of the Massai and captures the reader's imagination as he traces the girls' excruciatingly painful steps to victory.