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Call of the Abyss and Other Stories b...

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12 stories, 12 different worlds, 12 bold adventures. Travel back in time, to the future, and the present with these relatable stories.

GONE BUT NEVER LEFT by Joyce Mwai

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Gone But Never Left is a creative story about how dysfunctional family patterns are passed from one generation to the next. How parents normalize unhealthy family patterns and pass them to their children. It however shows how one person in a family lineage has the ability to make a decision that the dysfunctionality ends with them. The story explores the themes of love, betrayal, marriage, Domestic violence, cultural practices and impact of gender roles in relationships and families.

A Funeral Dress for Nyasuguta by Sant...

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‘A Funeral Dress for Nyasuguta’ is an anthology of African-flavoured short stories with diverse themes including love, politics, and dying.

A Mysterious Woman

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A Mysterious Woman is a captivating story of Nyang’arisa, the protagonist and a woman who chose a life of crime for survival. Unlike what society is accustomed to, Nyang’arisa joins a group of men, her ‘business partners,’ to make a living through an unlawful acquisition of what belongs to others. After some time, Nyang’arisa finds love in a young, hardworking, and loving man, Michael, whom she later marries. The thought of Michael knowing of her life in crime makes her scared and restless. She chooses to lead a mysterious life, with her history hidden from her husband and family. Nyang’arisa builds a new family, her tainted past notwithstanding. However, she lives always looking back over her shoulder with the nagging thought that her past might one day catch up with her. True to her thoughts, her past catches up with her as she ends up spending the rest of her life behind bars.

Kwamboka’s Inquiry

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Who killed Dr. Sarah Kwamboka? This popular founder of a girls’ school is shot dead in her house and an inspector from Nairobi is sent to Kisii to investigate. While attempting to uncover the motive behind the brutal crime, Sgt. James Dingiria discovers that Kwamboka had been collecting memoirs from the area as a way of preserving the region’s history. This novel weaves a murder mystery around short stories that reveal the history of ordinary people from this part of the country with a look at present-day Kenya. What others say “Dobrin has carefully plotted his novel with style that provides a smooth flow through short stories. It is a carefully thought plot that rouses a reader’s tang!’’- Sally Boyani, Book Editor. “It is a gripping story about murder, corruption, power, church politics, colonisation and chauvinism. The great drift of suspense in the text and the interwoven short stories make it a page turner. It is a well told must read.’’- Verah Omwocha, Book Editor.

THE LAST HAND OF RAMOGI BY BEN O, OKECH

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The Last Hand of Ramogi is an epic about the life of a legendary Luo chief, diviner and healer named Gor Mahia. It captures his childhood trials and challenges to claim his birthright in a fight for succession of the royal stool of Sigama. He becomes chief at a period where the encroachment by colonial masters redefines the system of governance and the old traditions in Luo land. The Luo will always honour the spirit of Ramogi—the father of their ancestry in many ways. Ben O. Okech honours his legacy through a trio of fascinating novels about the Legacy. Old storytellers will give way to new age storytellers but the gist of stories, just like their heritage will always stay the same. They are captured in the titles The Last pillar of Ramogi, The last Known Maidens of Ramogi and The Last Hand of Ramogi.

Wana Wa Magere Comic book chapter 1 b...

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When youth start disappearing in town, descendants of the great Luanda Magere, Neema and Jawar begin to investigate the matter when asked by their grandmother, who's friend's grandson has gone missing. On their journey to uncover the cause of the disappearance they discover that they must use an ancient lost artefact in order to find a solution to the evil that has befallen their community

Hide Your Lungs by Elvis Ondieki

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Remember 2020? How men would suffer and at times die but women largely remained unscathed when a virus ran the world roughshod? How some patients would have symptoms while others never looked like they were infected even though the virus was dancing in their blood? This 186-page novel aims to capture that aspect of the disease that shook the world in 2020. Plus, it invites you to look at your lungs, their strengths and weaknesses. It encourages you to hide them, if you can.

Old Money by Charles Chanchori

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Rita, the ambitious matriarch of the Mugambi empire, is an overbearing mother to her sons Zain and Bahati. She runs her family as she runs her businesses - with an iron fist - and swiftly and mercilessly deals with any sign of rebellion. Are the boys willing to sacrifice their fortunes and status for the sake of freedom and a chance to reinvent themselves? Set in the dynamic city of Nairobi, "Old Money" juxtaposes the lives of those privileged to be sitting in the lap of luxury with the lives of those eking out a living. The author draws us into a deeply riveting journey of transformation which explores corruption, exploitation, family relationships and blind ambition.

Sibiloi: The Genesis of Humanity by D...

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ONE Mysterious belt in an antique shop in London is a compass to secret caves of the Amalek tribe in Sibiloi, Northern Kenya. FOUR Researchers want to unravel the truth: biologist Dr Martha Watkins, anthropologist Jim Trevor, and archaeologists Dr Paul Brando from California, US, and Professor Simiyu from Kenya. TWO Extremist organisations want the truth buried forever: a religious sect and a terror organisation. Deep in the caves of Sibiloi in Turkana, Kenya, is the answer that has evaded researchers for ages: Sibiloi holds secrets of the genesis of humanity.

The Woman Called Angel And Other Stor...

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The stories in this collection covers a period of three and half decades and address various challenges and themes that face a person growing and ageing in Africa. They traverse the binaries of rural and urban, young and old, poor and rich, physical and metaphysical, and so forth of every generation. The source of these plots and subplots, conflicts, characters, and themes herein are a people's tales, lives, fantasies, and personal dreams of the author. The stories raise voices of all forms that resonates either in triumph or disillusionment. One needs to read them to identify, love, loathe or dismiss the banal worries of characters from all walks of life. The laments of hope sings along like a bird; however, dark the clouds transpire.

Hyenas by Wambui Kieya

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  • What do you do when your body becomes your prison, the source of all your trouble? When your mind refuses to move past the injustices visited upon it.
Stretched between two different generations and spread across 70 years, this is a story of love, of hope and resilience. A look at how trauma has been perceived over the generations and how it's victims have interacted with it.

The Merchant of Death by Mwebi O̵...

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of between 1980-2015, The Merchant of Death tells a story of a young man who

Battles Of The Savannah by Sammy Kipsang

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A fictional story about Kalenjin way of life. Conflicts, Culture and tradition, betrayal are the main themes. Two friends eventually turn into greatest enemies and one kills the other in climax

Lord Kitchener

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Set in newly-independent Kenya, Lord Kitchener is the story of ‘two worlds’, epitomized by Ombam and Engineer Okwach, and buttressed by an eclectic mix of social and political growing pains of a young nation. Ombam is focused on education, childhood games, sickness and the like. Engineer Okwach’s are high-class socio-political and economic problems that bedevil the young African nation. Concerned with political expediency, despite his education, Okwach is unashamed of political sycophancy and material aggrandizement under an autocratic regime that tramples upon citizens’ rights and freedoms. It is an environment that is a graveyard of independence-era aspirations where detentions without trial and opponent assassinations are the norm. Unfavourable circumstances (greed and social stratification) mean that Ombam discontinues his schooling early, and endures many challenges that life throws at him. His education is left waiting till much later in life. Will either of the two succeed? You, the reader, be the judge. What others say “The author has successfully created an imaginative and factual work of art under postcolonial and post-modernist thought, a contestation between marginal and dominant groups owing to cultural and political differences. African independence has not led to egalitarian societies but entrenched classes, political chaos and corruption.” – Dr. Andrew Nyongesa, writer & literary scholar. “Written in a unique, appealing flowery language, this book is rich in history dating back to Kenya’s independence. It captures the politics of the time – ideological divergence, political greed, corruption, ethnic discrimination and political assassinations, among others. Like Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, it highlights the dangers (personal and community) of opposition politics in young African nations.” - Joel Onyango, teacher, literary critic and founder of iTend-Kenya.

Son of Akanga- Arikana Book 1 by Wilf...

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There are two forces calling us out.

The Light and the Dark.

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There are 7 lands in the East.
Each different. Each profound. Each with its own struggles of Power.

This is the first Installation of a Three part unfolding Epic of the Historic battle between the sons of KAI and and of the fallen KEK.

In one dreadful event, the Lineage of the Chief of Akanga is threatened by a potent evil, only known to them as 'The Sorceress Of Harem', who possesses a magic Talisman and unbridled favour with the throne of Harem of Kush.

Kenan, son of the Konelia, and heir to the throne of Akanga, finds himself in the middle of this generational mess, unaware of the depths of the matter, that pulls together powers from lands beyond, beneath and above ARIKANA.

He must then, with a group of other strong-willed young men go on an Adventure filled Quest to the Heathen City of Harem, and confront the Evil that seeks to undo the 7 lands

THE LAST KNOWN MAIDENS OF RAMOGI BY B...

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The last maidens of Ramogi is a myth about how a mysterious lake came to be. Anyango Nyar Gwasi, one of the last maidens of Ramogi—who is the father of the Luo tribe ancestry, wishes that his first wife lives amongst his descendants. Anyango Nyar Gwasi is chosen as a reincarnation of the first wife of Ramogi as many have been before her, some from her own bloodline. She finds out about it in her life’s journey to find a home away from home. It is riddled with folklore fantasy and a venture in the fascinating enclaves of the Luo culture.

Voices

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n the small town of Soghor in Nyanza, Kenya, there exists a myth dating back to colonial times. It relates to people, termed kachinja, who were rumoured to prowl the area, arresting passers-by and tapping their blood. Supposedly, Songhor survived this way throughout the colonial period and into Kenya’s independence. Following emancipation, the White Highlands reverted to the indigenous population, and a settlement for the Luo, Kalenjin and Kisii communities. Folklore has it that people routinely dashed for the bushes whenever they saw a red car approaching. Its white owner is said to have used the car to transport captured Africans for slaughter. The man lived near the Songhor Museum Site that was founded by two white men in 1932, and gazetted in 1981. Two African families in nearby Tamu and Muhoroni are rumoured to have been complicit, acting as ‘catchers’ of Africans. At the white man’s homestead, the main house had a bunker-like hole with a small door, and a grilled opening. Keen observations lead to curious revelations. This is a fictionalized account based on a long-held myth. It is meant for enjoyment.

Bound by The Absence of Love by Elena...

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Do you know someone who drinks too much? Or a family where domestic violence is the norm? Maybe someone who killed themselves? Do you ever wonder how the children of that family handled all of that and how they are doing now? If you answered Yes, to 3 of the above questions, Bound by the Absence of Love is the book you have been looking for.