QUICK DELIVERY
Swift dispatch
Transference by Jacob Aliet
TRANSℲꓱRENCE
Lupkes is a hard-working young man shooting his shot in a toxic work environment with dim prospects. In the wake of COVID19 travel restrictions, businesses are suffering globally. As the economy tanks and job losses accrue, Lupkes loses his job. He is devastated.
As he is despairing, a lady he has been desiring appears at the lowest point in his life. Will things work out between them under his current situation?
Desperate for a means of survival, he finds a job opportunity at a pineapple plantation thirty miles away. He packs his belongings and leaves them in Nairobi to explore this new prospect.
As he settles in his new job on a far-flung farm, he sees red flags and questions his decision. After a nightmarish first night, he wants to leave, but his peculiar host has a fiendish plan for him. He decides to go back to Nairobi but realizes, rather late, that he is on a very dark farm where diabolical forces are at play, and he is their new target.
Will he survive his nemesis?
Transference is an anthology of sixteen short stories. Some roar with passion and twist in agony, others are tearjerkers, yet some are dark. Very dark.
Yinka Where Is Your Huzband by Lizzie...
Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life...well, that's a whole other story. But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right.
Still, when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel's Wedding. Aided by a spreadsheet and her best friend, Yinka is determined to succeed. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs to find is herself?
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? brilliantly subverts the traditional romantic comedy with an unconventional heroine who bravely asks the questions we all have about love. Wry, acerbic, moving, this is a love story that makes you smile but also makes you think--and explores what it means to find your way between two cultures, both of which are yours.
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice ...
Mama, I made it
out of your home,
alive, raised by the
voices in my head.
With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood.
Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls.
In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl.
The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.
Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Maban...
All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine.
When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his double, a porcupine, become accomplices in murder.
They attack neighbors, fellow villagers, and people who simply cross their path, for reasons so slight that it is virtually impossible to establish connection between the killings. As he grows older, Kibandi relies on his double to act out his grizzly compulsions, until one day even the porcupine balks and turns instead to literary confession.
Winner of the Prix Renaudot, France’s equal to the National Book Award, Alain Mabanckou is considered one of the most talented writers today. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of fifty writers to watch this coming century. And as Peter Carey suggests, he “positions himself at the margins, tapping the tradition founded by Celine, Genet, and other subversive writers.”
In this superb and striking story, Mabanckou brings new power to magical realism, and is sure to excite American audiences nationwide.
Kenya Culture Smart The Essential Gui...
Culture Smart! Kenya provides a cultural bridge that will carry you beyond the gloss of the hotels and deep into the warp and weft of everyday life; beyond the game parks and into the intricacies of community and wildlife coexistence; beyond the bounds of tourism and into the freedom of cultural understanding and exchange.
A true "insider's take" gleaned over years of living and working in the country, it delivers key insights into the forces, ancient and modern, that have shaped Kenya—and practical guidance on how best to enter into the modern Kenyan business and social environment.
Due to its high-action pursuits, cultural treasures, wealth of wildlife, and glorious beach life, it is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, and the unrivaled "safari capital of the world."
As to its people, Kenya is a cultural microcosm comprising more than seventy ethnic groups.
Each has its own distinctive cultural identity. All extend the warmth of welcome that has proved to be Kenya's most valuable asset to tourism.
Unfit for Society by Munira Hussein
From the problems of the girls and women grappling with the challenges of living in a patriarchal culture to the allure of terrorist groups, Munira Hussein writing in the voice of what one of her characters describes as the children of the north brings a unique perspective from a region of Kenya which, despite its rich cultural traditions, is mostly associated in the popular imagination, with all the wrong things; violence, insecurity and underdevelopment.
This compelling collection of stories from a young and upcoming writer shows there is more. Written in the exuberant flair of a poet, it celebrates the resilience of a people striving to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment, the soaring aspirations of the younger generation for a better life and stands as a challenge to society to re-examine its ethos; some of which have clearly been overtaken by time.
Recently shortlisted for the African Writers Award for the short story Powder in the Wind, Ms. Hussein has the grit to curve herself a niche in the literary sphere and Unfit for Society is only but the first word in what promises to be a fruitful writing career.
Prof. Goro Kamau, Associate Professor of Literature, Laikipia University
With Eyes Wide Open by Erick B. Gichuru
With Eyes Wide Open Novel is a Raw African account of losing innocence, self-discovery and the madness that lies in between!
With Eyes Wide Open Novel is about us. We all have a dark side! At some point in our lives, we’ve done or said something that we are truly ashamed of. For some of us, our forefathers are still turning in their graves. They say we become different versions of ourselves before we become who we truly are.
Set in the heart of Africa and inspired by life itself, the author vividly captures the messy human experience that might hit too close to home.
Author: Erick B. Gichuru
Genre: Literary Fiction; Romance
Type: Print Paperback
Length: 273 Pages
Publisher: Thelocco Publishers
Dear Daughter and other Poems
The Daughters of Nandi by Dr Nokuthul...
Through three historical periods, 3 women who are extraordinary in their different ways will seek to get restitution for Nandi Mhlongo, mother of Shaka ka Senzagakhona.
This book seamlessly weaves fact, fiction and spiritualities while subverting the way the reader perceives history.
It explores a wide variety of themes such as love, betrayal, tradition, culture, politics and so much more.
Unbound: Twitter thoughts for the hea...
About Unbound: Twitter thoughts for the heart and mind
This collection of Twitter Thoughts, Poetry and Affirmations reflects our journey as human beings of ascending out of the darkness – a journey transpiring in seven parts with a whole depicting growth, completion, and completeness: Reckoning, The Fall, Ascension, Whole Again, New Beginning, Gratitude, The End.
Each fragment incorporates enduring tweets and tips to become unbound and takes the reader through a journey of reflection, healing and transformation.
"I invite you to this lyrical journey and to dive into this collection of tweets – thoughts, affirmations and poetry that saved me – with an open mind. My hope is that you find musical notes in the texture of the words and let yourself be carried whenever your heart hears and sings them." – Verlaine-Diane
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself ― but first she has to make it there, alive.
The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade
Miracle Plant – How Industrial ...
MIRACLE PLANT is a book about the Industrial Hemp plant with a kenyan perspective on how it can benefit the economy of Kenya. The Industrial Hemp has for long been associated with Marijuana but the two are not the same. Industrial Hemp is a plant rooted in the judeo christianity scriptures, has immense environmental benefits and can be used to manufacture a wide range of products such as Nutraceutical Feeds & Oils, Cosmetics, Biodegradable plastics, Textiles & Fabrics, Paper products and Affordable Housing building blocks.
What Happened to Janet Uzor by Miracl...
A year after their best friend, Janet Uzor dies in a drowning incident, Pamela and Ebere are trying to cope and move on in their own unique ways. Pamela buries her emotions, while Ebere has been on a mission to find out what really happened to their friend, an excellent swimmer, whose death seems unfair and unconscionable.
When Pamela begins to receive sinister letters threatening her life, she finally has to confront her fears, and with the help of Ebere, on/off boyfriend Eche, good friend Daniel Kalio, she sets out to find out who is after her life.
In order to do this, they have to uncover the truth and the circumstances behind the death of Janet Uzor.
Bridges are for Burning by Bina Idonije
On the eve of Valentine’s Day, Oghogho ‘Gigi’ Dempster wore her heart on her sleeve. At almost thirty-one, she was single and ready to mingle after nearly two years of relegating her love-life to the curb in favour of growing her fledgling social media company.
Her beautiful best friend Alana was newly pregnant for the love of her life, Benjamin Halal, and her sister Efemena ‘Fifi’ was married to wealthy aristocrat, Lotanna Dike.
But on that February 13th night, Gigi wasn’t looking for what her best friend and sister had; not love or marriage, but a temporary connection and intimacy. How could she have known that that night would dramatically alter the course of her life?
To My Girls, With Love. A Mother̵...
'This is an absolute must read, not only for your girls but for all the girls.
The wisdom you shared will not only help the girls become responsible citizens, it will also help them become God fearing and have values that will help them survive on earth and beyond.
This book will be read in many generations to come. I see this book as a start that led the three magi to Bethlehem and I strongly believe that it will lead the young girls to the right path in their life. This is truly a girl companion.' - Oltesh Thobias, author, speaker and trainer.
Declare Your Interest by Hamisi Wawire
Fazul, a young and ambitious teacher gets into an undeclared love relationship with the new madam Fatim.
What follows is emotional twists and turns that not only leave readers glued but also carry them into the world of the protagonist: Fazul, with betrayals, hypocrisy, suffering and perseverance, one thing stands out: truth will always triumph.
By Hamisi Wawire.