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The unmarked grave and other stories
The unmarked grave and other stories is a collection of mostly factual and a few fictitious stories handed down to me by my late grandmother. Though fictional there's a clear lesson that's still applicable in our modern day society. All other factual stories e.g the wingless butterfly, killed by love and holier than thou happened in the author's life and environment. By documenting all those unfortunate events requires the society to acknowledge and act on them to get an amicable solution.
Woman Beneath her Feet and Other Stories
This anthology is an amalgamation of contemporary and some universal well packaged in fictional narratives told by a group of Kenyan writers.
The herein are educative, entertaining, and thought- provoking, and intend to preserve the lived realities of this generation into posterity.
The compelling themes ranging from love, family, identity, and life pre- and post-pandemic among others are well thought out and are stories of young women and men grappling with ther of romantic relationships and unrequited love, sex and its outcomes , single parenthood , loss and grief, generational realities, work-life balance, religion, life choices, and the complexities of families among other riveting storylines.
WHEN YOU SING TO THE FISHES by Okanga...
He is back for some unfinished business in the city that made him. Kisumu.
Guitarist Otis Dinos is back in Kisumu, the addictive and possessive lakeside town. Back in the ‘80s, he was the Urban Benga guitar legend. His commercially potent mix of hard benga and lofty rumba was loud with a culture surrounding it, and a cult-like following. It ignited an entire generation of music fans. It made him rich and famous.
When he left Kisumu twenty years ago, it was a sudden unpleasant event. Everything ended in tragedy. He was twenty-nine years and at his peak. Today he still is the artsy man: the musician, the guitarist. People have died fast; the men and women who helped him make music… they have all died or wasted away. Is he about to go too? What is left?
The past has unfulfilled dreams, good life, nice cars, easy money, expensive perfumes, glamorous women, living on the road and on stage and in the studios. And conniving bandmates, thieving promoters, and clever pirates.
The present is bearable but holds no promise: he is forty-seven. If he has to accept his forced retirement, he has to learn to be a local Kisumuan, not the famous name. He reminisces about the romantic encounters of the ‘70s. The future is uncertain. He is searching for sanity and happiness. Happiness? In Kisumu lives the woman whose unfulfilled love still dwells in his heart. But his mind is too bamboozled to even think.
THE NEW GIRL IN MOMBASA by Okanga Ooko
She ran away to find freedom only to find herself trapped.
After the death of her fiance, Wanjiru separates herself from her young son and escapes the suffocation of her life in Nairobi, boards a bus to Mombasa. Waiting to host her is Barack, an engineer who is returning to Nairobi after many years in Mombasa, to escape the memories of his complex relationship with a Muslim woman who died tragically in his hands. In Barack’s Nyali penthouse, Wanjiru finds herself trapped by her affection for the razor-sharp, complex, egotistical man who is obsessed only with maintaining the tight social rigours of his Bohemian lifestyle, working hard by the day and partying hard by the night. His only
dream in life is to leave Mombasa in his own physical or emotional ways to escape the anxiety of growing old. They begin to form an emotional bond that teeters on the edge of being called love, both of them knowing that if they ever choose to do so, it will break the idyll in which they're living. For Wanjiru, Mombasa means everything. Mombasa is a dream-come true and the future.
Here she makes friends and starts to build a life she loves. When Wanjiru begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of becoming more than a housemate, Barack finds himself powerless as ever to resist her siren song.
The New Girl In Mombasa is a portrait of two people running from a troubled past and moving towards an uncertain future. Set in Mombasa, Kenya’s famed coastal city of rich historical heritage and Swahili culture, it is a haunting look at loneliness, the struggle for love, belonging and independence. Its beauty lies in its subtlety, its emotional nuances. And Mombasa is glamorous, seductive, magical, always looped around by the sensuous, unrelenting rhythm of night clubs, and steeped in hookups, revelry, barhopping, and the pleasures of the beach parties.
Salted with Fire
Salted with Fire takes place in Kisii on the eve of Kenya’s independence. Central to the story is Dexter Conway, a colonial officer who will be one of the few to remain in Kenya. This suits Conway, who seeks a different life in the newly independent country. The tale begins with a mysterious train wreck. As the story unfolds, Conway becomes enmeshed with Kwamboka, wounded and hidden at Conway’s home by his servant, Maranga. Through Kwamboka, Conway’s relationship with Maranga takes a new turn.
In the surprising and suspenseful story, Arthur Dobrin reverses the effect of a changing world upon the lives of these people in Western Kenya
The Leader : English Version of the K...
Brief Summary
The Leader focuses on the perennial issues that bedevil leadership in Africa. While the citizens of Sagamoyo are preparing for month long festivities in recognition of "monumental development", Chapakazi Market, which is the mainstay of the regional economy is closed suddenly. Why have the Leaders closed the Market? What will happen to the people of Sagamoyo who rely on the Market?
This play gives a realistic image of a country that takes pride in having been independent for decades. However, who has benefited from these independence?
John Sibi Okumu Collected Plays 2004-...
Brief Summary
On Role Play
“Role Play, which was best performed in 2004, gives us a ‘zoomed out’ perspective of Kenya’s history and society and gives African drama, and posterity, a new point of reference.”
-Anne Manyara, The East African.
“… a deftly woven amalgamation of possibilities… by turns subtle and confrontational.”
– Parselelo Kantai, Iko! Magazine (Kenya)
“… an unapologetic look at racial stereotypes in modern Kenya.”
– Newsweek International.
“… actors take their audience through Kenya’s modern history.”
– The (UK) Independent.
On Kaggia
“The play depicts a man who o?ered all his life to his nation but who became a victim of betrayal by compatriots and a new African leadership too preoccupied with sleaze, squandering a lifetime opportunity to change the lives of the people they led.”
– George Orido, The (Kenya) Standard.
On Elements
“It tells the story of Dana, a woman of mixed race heritage who, despite her wide travels around the world, still faces a con?ict of belonging as she navigates the maze of identities.”
– Tefo Nombolo, The (Botswana) Midweek Sun
The Jail bugs by Wahome Mutahi
The President’s Man. Book one. ...
What is known about Hassan Al Rashid, also known as El Diablo, is that he is untouchable. A drug dealer, gunrunner and partner of the Somalia Alshabaab, he has powerful protectors deep inside government.
But it is when a frustrated president sends ace detective Patrick after him and he is captured that it begins to become clear he is not just a crime lord. Part of something called The Partnership, El Diablo could be aiding the plans of a deeply secret and treasonous conspiracy built around the frustrations of the loss of the Shifta War back in the sixties.
And even as the president struggles to come to terms with the deep rot now uncovered in the national security institutions, The Partnership pursues El Diablo in custody, determined to either rescue or kill him to keep him silent.
Stampede is the first of a proposed trilogy called
The President’s Man.
A Funeral Dress for Nyasuguta
Love Told, Poetry Souled, Family Bold
‘Love Told, Poetry Souled, Family Bold’ is a 3-in-1-Special authored by Sant Mark. It is a collection of snippets, short stories, flash fiction, ramblings, poetry and a play. As first works go, it reflects closely the author’s experiences and inexperiences, biases, struggle to find a voice, coming of age, imposter syndrome… good and bad, it cuts both ways.
What i thought was my end became my b...
Helen’s world shatters with betrayal and isolation, but in the depths of despair, she discovers a new path. "What I Thought Was My End Became My Beginning" is a raw, emotional journey of a young woman finding her strength and purpose. Experience Helen’s transformation as she learns that the end of one chapter is just the beginning of another.
THE DEVIL’S UNDERWEAR by Nahash...
- A compilation of two remarkable fiction novels.
The Airlift Orphan
The seed from which this book germinated was the Tom Mboya/Kennedy airlifts which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dozens of young bright students from Kenya were given a chance to further their education in the United States of America. A Kenyan visionary, politician and trade unionist, Tom Joseph Mboya, had seen that an independent Kenya would need its own well educated citizens to steer the new nation as most of the colonial government workers were leaving.
Kendi, the chief persona in the story, is daughter of a man who left his pregnant lover behind and failed to come back. The travails that Kendi and her mother go through at the hands of a ruthless society is the real gist of this story.
The story is entirely fictional but is primarily based on a historical event which actually took place.
The Airlift Orphan is a moving tale of, betrayal, sorrow, love and ultimate redemption. Despite being based on historical happenings, the story is timeless and will entertain readers for generations to come.
Beneath her wings: poetry collection ...
Beneath her wings is a collection of poetry that unfolds the art of healing from loss, love and growth. It takes you to wide sail of self improvement it consoles the reader to accept their aching heart and move on,may this book be the place you find acknowledgment of your feelings and may it heal every wound that you’ve concealed the world.
It comes with a free bookmark as an appreciative gift
Equipoise: 2020 Anthology of the Nair...
Brief Summary
Ten new stories from Kenya. Herein are to be found vampires and gods; sex toys and exhibitionists; divorces and soon-to-be divorcees; heart attacks and heartbreaks; grief unending, bad decisions and unexpected salvation; the unemployed, troubled expatriates, hustlers and conmen; adventures in Nairobi, Dar es Salam, Mt. Elgon and everywhere in between; friends who are not just friends, unruly relatives and beloved but complicated parents.
Featured authors are:
- Miriam Amoit
- Rumona Apiyo
- Nyasili Atetwe
- Clarie Gor
- Alvin Kathembe
- Duncan Mwangi
- Aggrey Oriwo
- Gladwell Pamba
- Natalie Sifuma
- Kiprono Tonui
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiongo
Brief Summary
From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature. In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugi wa Thiongo has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise.
His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words, nothing less than "to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history.” Commencing in "our times” and set in the "Free Republic of Aburiria,” the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Among the contenders: His High Mighty Excellency; the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank.
Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Wizard of the Crow reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugl wa Thiongo’s career thus far.