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Silver Lining by Ash Jay
Kerby and Kayron know each other via Facebook. The little spark they have makes Kerby travel to Mozambique to meet Kayron, a poor guy living in the slums. A whirlwind romance ensues during the few days they are together.
However, the sudden appearance of Kayron's old flame who left him during their final year in college leaves Kerby with a bad feeling. She abruptly ends her vacation and returns to Kenya never to be seen again online. After three years Kayron travels to Kenya in search of Kerby.
The search proves to be more difficult than he had thought especially after he fathers a daughter and commits to settling down as a family. What happened to Kerby? Why did she disappear into thin air? Will he ever find her? Has she moved on? Why did she cut off all ties with Kayron?
The Ogre of Sebet by Kathryn Langat
In the tranquil village of Sebet lives a proud beautiful girl called Oset.
Oset turns down all suitors until a mysterious handsome young man comes along and wins her heart.
When Oset arrives at her new home, she discovers that her husband is actually an ogre that lurked in Sebet forest! The ogre eats her piece by piece until, one day, Oset sends a bird to ask her family to go and save her.
Ten Cities: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cair...
A nocturnal journey through local histories of clubbing in Africa and Europe
The image of the DJ dragging his record case through international “non-places” and deejaying in clubs around the globe is a contemporary cliché. But these club scenes have rich, geographically differentiated local histories and cultures. This book expands the focus beyond the North Atlantic clubbing axis of Detroit–Chicago–Manchester–Berlin.
It looks at ten club capitals in Africa and Europe, reporting on different scenes in Bristol, Johannesburg, Cairo, Kyiv, Lagos, Lisbon, Launda, Nairobi and Naples. The local music stories, the scenes, the subcultures and their global networks are reconstructed in 21 essays and photo sequences.
The tale they tell is one of clubs as laboratories of otherness, in which people can experiment with new ways of being and assert their claim to the city. Ten Cities is a nocturnal, sound-driven journey through ten social and urban stories from 1960 through to the present.
SHOULD I? by Florence Bett
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigeri...
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images.
And yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view: one that details the realities and contradictions of patriotism, examines the role of class and privilege in Nigerian society, juxtaposes inherited tradition with the diasporic experience and explores the power of storytelling and its intrinsic link to Nigeria’s history.
Within these pages, acclaimed and award-winning writers share memories and experiences of Nigeria that can be found nowhere else, bringing to the fore a country whose influence can be found everywhere.
Powerful, lyrical and entirely unforgettable, OF THIS OUR COUNTRY weaves together a living portrait of Nigeria, one that is as beautiful as it is complex.
Carnivore Mountain by Charles Chanchori
Tuli blames his older brother Jabali for a mistake in the past that led to tragic consequences. Jabali is tired of shouldering the blame.
Armed with this sibling rivalry, the brothers get lost in Carnivore Mountain where they must put their differences aside if they can even begin to hope to find their way to safety.
Rock Bottom by Charles Chanchori
Deon Sudi is an acclaimed novelist and filmmaker living in Nairobi. Coming from broken background, Deon suffers from sex addiction, alcoholism and deeply entrenched trust issues.
He carries these problems into his romantic relationships and when they don't last, his cracked faith in humanity cracks. Eventually, he finds himself on the verge of his ideal relationship.
A relationship that promises emotional, financial and familial security. Can he heal from the past in time to not ruin it?
I am assurance and motivation by J.G....
Alternate Dispute Resolution in the M...
The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah
One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself.
Abbas has never told anyone about his past—before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a drugstore in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.
Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend.
She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought to find herself—until now.
Odunga’s Digest on Civil Case L...
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense.
He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection.
Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love, betrayal, of seduction and of possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
Zoo By Charles Chanchori
At Night All Blood Is Black by David ...
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man’s Land.
Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand.
At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?
Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.
Doings, Non-Doings and Mis-Doings by ...
The Doings, Non-Doings and Mis-Doings by Kenya Chief Justices 1963-1998 is the very first authoritative account by an 'insider' of the political and professional dynamics at play in the administration of justice, and among those who dispense it, in independent Kenya.
Legal experts have commented on Kenya's Chief Justices but (Rtd.) Chief Justice Abdul Majid Cockar is the very first Chief Justice to put pen to paper to give us a very personal account of the everyday goings-on which impinged on his career in the Kenya Judiciary from 1961 to 1998.
The timing of the publication is a godsend given the astronomical expectations Kenyans have placed on judicial reforms, expectations which in my view, must be managed.
Dr. Willy Mutunga, D. Jur, SC, EGH
Chief Justice and President
High Court of Kenya
Our Stories Redefined (2021) Poetry A...
An anthology by African poets to celebrate new-age African writing.
‘Our Stories Redefined’ annual anthology is the vehicle for new-age African writers to tell their stories to a generation that understands them.
In this 2021 (poetry) edition, the poems cut across the generations. They paint a picture of a new generation not grappling with Afro-modernity but embracing Afro-currency with a hope for a better future for Africa.
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.
Naika, Nyaboke and the Dead Lemon Tre...
Two young girls watch as the only lemon tree they knew of 'dies' because it got 'sick'. Instead of remaining sad,they decide to plant more lemon tress using the seeds from the dead lemon tree. Fortunately, the seeds germinate and they take turns in nurturing them so that they mature into big lemon trees. After reading the story the readers will learn how to make good from bad things.
Tears of the Crocodile: From Rio to R...
'A lucid, stinging critique' Environmental Politics a critical, radical perspective ... bringing reality home to the reader' international Energy and development
Contents: Road to Rio * Climate & Energy * Biodiversity & Biotechnology * Forests * Trade Versus Aid * Agriculture & Land * Water * Waste * Women & Other 'Groups' * Debt is Bad For Your Health