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A Girl from Kyondoni by Ruth Mwanzia
The Pains We Live by Sophie Kiwelu (M...
Believe Us: How Jurgen Klopp transfor...
The definitive account of Jurgen Klopp's astonishing revival of Liverpool Football Club.
Liverpool Football Club's stunning 2020 Premier League title victory deserves a place in the official record of great sporting achievements. The Reds became the first team in British history to hold the European Cup, Super Cup, World Club Cup and domestic league title simultaneously in a masterclass of free-scoring, full-throttle footballing prowess.
Journalist Melissa Reddy reveals the inside story of Jurgen Klopp's astonishing revival of Liverpool, culminating in the club's first domestic league trophy in thirty years. Featuring incisive and insightful reporting, and the thoughts of players, management and club hierarchy, Believe Us paints a vivid picture of this titanic sporting success. Reddy's unparalleled access to the club brings interviews with everyone from fans and key backroom staff to players including talismanic captain Jordan Henderson, and of course Klopp himself.
The perfect gift for any fan of the club or its inimitable leader, this is heavy metal football writing at its best.
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beauti...
Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days. The Nazis took everything from Eddie—his family, his friends, and his country. But they did not break his spirit.
Against unbelievable odds, Eddie found the will to survive. Overwhelming grateful, he made a promise: he would smile every day in thanks for the precious gift he was given and to honor the six million Jews murdered by Hitler. Today, at 100 years of age, despite all he suffered, Eddie calls himself the “happiest man on earth.” In his remarkable memoir, this born storyteller shares his wisdom and reflects on how he has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance, and kindness. Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. With The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie shows us how.
Filled with his insights on friendship, family, health, ethics, love, and hatred, and the simple beliefs that have shaped him, The Happiest Man on Earth offers timeless lessons for readers of all ages, especially for young people today.
My Lifes Journey By Hon Titus Mbathi
Journeys and Stories by Elizabeth Mue...
Journeys and Stories carries an inspirational chronicle packed with life experiences that will rouse your inner spirit, help you unpack your limitations, learn skills to embrace the power of calmness, understand how expensive it is to protect your dignity and also guide you into a state of being 'Wonderfully You'.
Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge...
The distinguished Kenyan lawyer S.M. Otieno died intestate in 1986; the ensuing struggle between his Kikuyu widow and his Luo clan became a matter of national concern. Debates raged over what legal, cultural, social, and historical grounds should govern the disposition of SM's remains, what legal rights should be enjoyed by widows, and over the interests of the state.
While closely scrutinizing the legal case record, the authors examine how history was constructed by the various litigants, counsel, jurists, and witnesses, including an elderly gravedigger and mason, a cook, and a professor of philosophy.
The authors invited a half-dozen scholars from different disciplines to discuss "what the case was really about" and "how the story should be told." These brief commentaries are included.
The General and I by Helen Pilale Nka...
This is the story of an imposing military man whose appointment to head the country's security apparatus made Kenyans feel relatively safe again after multiple terror attacks.
A disciplined patriot and a fitness-enthusiast, Nkaissery’s sudden death, on the eve of a General Election, sent shock waves worldwide. In the list of his unfinished work, was his wish to write his life story.
His widow, Helen, steps up courageously to bear witness and realize the General’s dream. She weaves this memoir in the context of a Maasai cultural world set against a fast-changing political landscape.
Theatre Near the Equator: The Donovan...
A personal recollection of the lives and works of Donovan Maule, a former Army Major, and his wife, Mollie, who emigrated from England to Mombasa during the inter-war period, and built a repertory, colonial theatre in Kenya.
The story tells in considerable detail of the pre-independence and Second World War periods, of what happened to the theatre during independence and how it finally receded in 1984.
The Crocodile River by Pauline Magosv...
The Crocodile River is the intriguing tale of the life of Pauline Magosvongwe, an ordinary woman who goes on to lead an extraordinary life. Born in a small town in the then colonial Rhodesia, she ends up in the bright, enchanting lights of the United States through a journey filled with a mix of miracles, sadness, but most of all, hope, as she overcomes difficult and sometimes life-threatening circumstances.
Her story simultaneously serves as a historical account of precolonial Zimbabwe, backdropped by the social issues that she faced as a young black woman in white minority ruled Zimbabwe.
A gripping adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish, Pauline's life is not only awe-inspiring but a lesson in faith and how it can shape one's life.
From the Village to the World: Reflec...
Jeremiah, a UK-based Kenyan Economist and Pastor, was born and raised in a small village called Kamanzi in Kenya. His childhood was spent in the midst of tremendous challenges including poverty and deprivation. Their family struggled to afford food and school fees.
That notwithstanding, Jeremiah received education through providential circumstances. By sharing reflections from his own life story, Jeremiah offers the reader an example of how setbacks in real life turned into breakthroughs.
In addition to Jeremiah’s life story, you will read reflections from four other similarly inspiring stories. This message will encourage and inspire you to convert life's inherent setbacks to your advantage.
Important Lesson: Most of our humiliating defeats and setbacks in life can be converted into spectacular breakthroughs.
Endorsements
"This book is quite inspirational. I would encourage everyone to read it. It will give you renewed energy to walk through the rough patches of life's journey."
Prof. Hazel Miseda Mumbo
Vice Chancellor
Great Lakes University of Kisumu.
"I find From the Village to the World very insightful and helpful."
Dr. John Dilworth
Lecturer
Africa International University
Descent From Cherangany Hills: Memoir...
The life story of B. E. Kipkorir (1939-2015) is a stunning account told with the grace and ease of a seamless symphony; in captivating literary language, complete with rhetorical flashes of gripping phrases and simple sentences mortised to astonishing tightness. It is a story about the ultimate triumph of a man who beat great odds to scale the highest heights he possibly could.
A singular raconteur, the author weaves a tapestry – spanning many years – in quick rapid fire, both vivid and compelling. It’s a story to make you laugh, a story to make you cry, to build your faith to maximize your potential, for it is a story about possibilities.
We read fascination as the quintessential Marakwet village boy, with almost frightful upbringing turns into a consummate academic (albeit reluctantly), as he makes an epic journey through GAS Tambach, Alliance High School, Makerere University and finally, to Cambridge University, England.
Kipkorir, an amazing figure of pure will, took his burning ambition to equally deadly and fierce combat zones of war: study, the corporate world and public service; working, as a Deputy Clerk of the Sirikwa County Council, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Executive Chairman of the Kenya Commercial Bank and later, as Kenya’s Ambassador to Washington.
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, disaster struck the Kipkorir’s closely-knit family, with the force of a hurricane - and the family was shaken to a jolt - when Kipkorir’s wife, Lea, was diagnosed with cancer. The author nostalgically relieves his last days with Lea, in a language that is heartbreaking, poetic and haunting; he recounts joys past and envisions what could have been.
Despite the passionately penetrating, often unflattering accounts of his personal and family life, these memoirs are a work of history. Of no less relevance are his accounts of the incredibly amateurish approaches of European missionaries to the social engineering of African societies and their culture, aided in so small measure by colonial administrators, employing Africans’ own resources for the purpose! These memoirs are the history of his people, both local and national, in his time and circumstances. They inform and challenge. They are intended to inspire others to contribute further to the illumination of our time.
Spare by Prince Harry
“Spare takes readers immediately back to one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror,” reads the press release from publisher Penguin Random House. “As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.” The forthcoming tell-all is described as “a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.”
The one-word title is, at first glance, a vague one, yet, for Harry—and the generations of royal second-borns before him—it carries heavy significance.
“The heir and the spare” or “the spare to the heir” has long been a common refrain to describe the monarch and their sibling. In the olden days when disease was rampant and death among children common, having multiple offspring, or “spares” were necessary to ensure a family’s line in case death befell the first born. Simply put: they were human insurance—and, once their older brother reached a mature age, expendable.
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life.
Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal.
Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi's fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.
There is No Useless Experience by Lev...
Levi Kones tells a real and raw story of how he messed up his 20's, went to America and was deported, battled alcoholism, fought a mental disorder and later cancer and learnt the hard lessons on the value of people and use of money.
A brutally honest book that will send you on a roller coaster of emotions and give you lessons at the same time.
Diary of the Miaha by Verah Omwocha D...
This is a story of a young girl lost in a world too big for her petite body and unwelcome ideas. A girl trying to
understand the love of God. And her husband’s.
It is about a girl, who is trying to fix puzzles to understand why she is here. And to do what she was sent to do. It’s about a girl on a journey to finding herself. To healing the child in her.
To finding peace. And digging deep into her soul, to find forgiveness and hand it to the world. Is marriage welcoming of a young girl, broken in so many ways? She asks.
Zarina Patel: An Indomitable Spirit b...
Zarina Patel is a writer, artist, human rights and race relations activist, environmentalist and campaigner for social justice. She is a leading authority on Kenyan South Asian history, and editor of the journal Awaaz, which focuses on South Asian history and culture in the national context.
The book chronicles Zarina's multi-dimensional life. Although she was born and raised in an upper middle class family, she rejected opulence and sought personal liberty and fullfillment by identifying with multi-ethnic and multi racial groups that were struggling for human rights and freedom from exploitation and domination in Kenya.
Additionally, her multi-dimensional life bears witness to the harsh realities that women in African and Asian communities face: the lack of independence to choose whom to marry, whether to have children, adherence to a particular religion, to name a few.
Her dissent liberated her from the shackles of patriarchal Asian society, but also drew her to Kenyans of similar character and thinking.
Zarina's biography echoes the lives of many women around the world playing a multitude of roles - as wives, mothers and professional women - who have struggled and have had to give up part of their dreams in order to succeed in each of these roles.
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Maki...
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines.
Born at a time when the bitter legacy of slavery and Reconstruction still poisoned the lives of black Americans, Gaston was determined to make a difference for himself and his people. His first job, after serving in the celebrated all-black regiment during World War I, bound him to the near-slavery of an Alabama coal mine—but even here Gaston saw not only hope but opportunity. He launched a business selling lunches to fellow miners, soon established a rudimentary bank—and from then on there was no stopping him. A kind of black Horatio Alger, Gaston let a single, powerful question be his guide: What do our people need now? His success flowed from an uncanny genius for knowing the answer.
Combining rich family lore with a deep knowledge of American social and economic history, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Hines unfold Gaston’s success story against the backdrop of a century of crushing racial hatred and bigotry. Gaston not only survived the hardships of being black during the Depression, he flourished, and by the 1950s he was ruling a Birmingham-based business empire. When the movement for civil rights swept through the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Gaston provided critical financial support to many activists.
At the time of his death in 1996, A. G. Gaston was one of the wealthiest black men in America, if not the wealthiest. But his legacy extended far beyond the monetary. He was a man who had proved it was possible to overcome staggering odds and make a place for himself as a leader, a captain of industry, and a far-sighted philanthropist. Writing with grace and power, Jenkins and Hines bring their distinguished ancestor fully to life in the pages of this book. Black Titan is the story of a man who created his own future—and in the process, blazed a future for all black businesspeople in America.