African Interest

Brief Summary Five years ago, a faceless guardian angel rescued James Lavin from prison during a trial that would have ended with him hanging at the lower end of a hangman’s rope by his neck. After a chaotic five years, he decides to go back to his birth town, pulled to the ridges and the hills by the memories of an innocence he doesn’t feel anymore. His travails lead him to Kathleen, his childhood sweetheart who also happens to be his first and only love. Old flames are re-ignited, and Lavin comes down to earth six blissful months later to find himself cornered. See, for a fugitive, a few moments of lascivious distraction can be the difference between freedom and jail time, or worse, death. When old foes ensnare him, Lavin discovers that going back home may not have been such a good idea. He appears to be destined back to jail or a painful death, but the faceless benefactor, like a competent guardian angel, swoops in and saves the day, and his hide, again. The Fugitive’s Love is a romantic story infused with intrigue, mystery, and suspense. ISBN:9781370392971 Author:P. G. Gatuna

Brief Summary As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two layers of this extraordinary, definitive account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British history, the repercussions of which the modern world is still living with. ISBN:9780141027982 Author:James Walvin

Brief Summary The Agikuyu are a people living in the eastern African country of Kenya. The earliest ancestors of the Agikuyu—as of all other modern human beings of the species Homo sapiens living today—according to archaeological, ethnological, and genetic studies coordinated by Professor Sarah Tishkoff, lived in an area around the coastal border of today’s Namibia and Angola about 200,000 years ago. The Great Migration out of Africa 70-50 thousand years ago left the ancestors of Africa’s Black population occupying the valley of the River Nile and the then lushly green areas of the present Sahara Desert. By 6000 BC, there were farming communities of Negroid peoples living in the Rivers Niger-Benue Basin. From around 2500 BC, a great migration of the Bantu peoples would start from the Basin of the Rivers Niger and Benue. In the next 4,000 years, the Bantu peoples, of whom the Agikuyu are a prominent group, would occupy and tame virtually the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. By around AD 1000, a Bantu community speaking a Thagicu dialect had obtained a foothold at the foothills of Nyambene Hills in Igembe-Tigania in northern Meru country. This community set out around AD 1000 to look for new living space due west and south. During this migration, the ancestors of the Tharaka were the first to hive off from the original community of Thagicu migrants. On arrival at Ntugi forest/Kijege hill, they veered eastwards towards the lower plains of Thagana River. Next, the ancestors of the Cuka hived off at the confluence of Mutonga and Ruguti rivers, occupying the ridges on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya. At Mwene Ndega’s grove across the Thuci River, the ancestors of the Embu made settlement. ISBN:9789966111982 Author:Paul Ngige Njoroge