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Tears of Disinheritance: Revisiting t...
In Tears of Disinheritance, Ben Ole Koissaba systematically analyzes many of the issues arising from matters of land from the perspective of the Maasai. Going as far back as memory and written records reach, Dr. Koissaba captures the story of the Maasai, their origins, belief system and migrations to vast stretches of land that form most of the Rift Valley, both in Kenya and Tanzania.
He succinctly captures the genesis of many a conflict, displacement and subsequent impoverishment, including treaties purportedly signed on behalf of the Maasai at the advent of colonialism; treaties that even independent Kenya has failed to address. Tears of Disinheritance makes the case for the rights of indigenous peoples in Kenya, drawing parallels with similar cases in countries like Canada, Australia and the USA.
This book is thought-provoking in more ways than one on matters of land and how best to view and use land as well as how best to protect the land rights of indigenous people in Kenya.
The Cages We Built by Kendi Karimi
In these pages, the author weaves words together like a master architect, constructing a literary house that will shelter your thoughts and emotions. Brick by brick, they unveil the hidden depths behind the enigmatic title, inviting you to explore the war and rebellions fought within the mind and heart.
It's time to unlock the cage and set your soul free!
Murdering Romance by Kendi Karimi
A Wakini Kuria Prize & African Writers Awards shortlisted author
Murdering Romance is a story about Mukami who simply wanted to experience an actual authentic moment of genuine love and call it her own. But let the title not lull you into thinking that the book is solely about romance. It is much more. The author first portrays Mukami as this lady who seems to be on a revenge mission disguised as a pursuit of love but as the plot thickens, the storyline evolves into other deeper issues. The book delves deep into several themes including domestic violence, toxic masculinity, femininity, absentee parents and abuse, among others.
Often there is a gulf of difference between fiction and non-fiction but in Murdering Romance, the dissimilarity between the two is too blurred to discern.
Life In No Order: A compilation of sh...
A head scratching, heart stopping collection of stories
Praise for the stories in Life In No Order
GENRE: SHORT STORY
TITLE: OUR BRIEF HEAVENLY HOUR
WRITER: KENDI KARIMI, KENYA
REVIEWER: HALIEO MOTANYANE, LESOTHO
WEBSITE: WRITER'S SPACE AFRICA
Captivity is one of the biggest achievements that a writer should rejoice in whenever their story masters it. For a story to be a masterpiece, the reader should be captivated to the point of not wanting to stop reading while wishing the story should not end.
This is what Kendi Karimi’s story has done to me. Rather than call ‘Our Brief Heavenly Hour’ a short story, it would fit perfectly as a ‘Personal Letter’.
“Kendi, you have a deep-rooted philosophical soul that is unparalleled in verse! Your poetic style is quite unique.”
-LANCE SHERIDAN
Don’t Wait In The Sun, Dance In The Rain
Your prose is so incredibly eloquent. The metaphors you create uniquely elevate your writing. You convey the joy of love, the grief of heartbreak, and the beauty of healing so intimately and powerfully.”
-PHOENIX WILLIAMSON
Number 27
“Wow! This such a motivational and inspiring story. Everyone's lives have dark days and when I am going through mine, this story would keep me alive. This has given the readers (or maybe me) the strength to keep their hopes on guard.”
-KEYA JADAV
Something Full And Round And Fruity
Wowwwww. This was immediately powerful and compelling…I could feel the grief between the lines, the pain, the fear, but also the love.
-KELLY DENNISON
White Men Police Teeth
You are such a commanding writer. Strong, yet subtle compelling me to dive deeper into my consciousness and perception.
-BETH CONNOR
This was absolutely amazing…your use of metaphors really blows me away. This is such a raw and powerful work of art.
-SAPPHIRE
“It’s like you’ve given words to the unexplainable, and yet it’s so effortlessly put that it’s breath-taking.”
-WANGARE
About the book
Stories are never just stories the same way love isn't just love or hate just hate. With love, you make the life-altering decision to live and die by your lover's side when marriage come along. With hate, you bully a child into submission, into self-loathing, into depression.
With stories, you tell about your share of pain and joy, love and hate and in doing so, you knit a lovely invisible creation that sheds light on culture and history as is in your time. You have the chance to immortalize something with a story, a chance to shine the torch on life. These stories, these histories, are poetic, vivid, full.
Life in no order is a collection of short stories that talk about life, in no order.
About the author
Kendi Karim graduated top of her class with first-class honors in Mass Communication. Her short story, What Does It Mean To Be Kind Anyway, was shortlisted for the Wakini Kuria Prize for children’s literature in 2021. ‘Our Brief Heavenly Hour' has also been featured by Writer’s Space Africa and her work has been recognized by BIC group and EUEPA.
A writer for the lovers, dreamers and believers.
For the hope give-ups, and the heart beat-ups.
A FLAME OF PASSION AND OTHER POEMS by...
A Flame Of Passion and Other Poems’ have a thrilling conversation with each other on various contemporary issues of life and nature, which evokes different emotional dispositions while immersing the reader in a thrilling literally voyage of how human emancipatory spirit stubbornness lucidly emerges in every other time humane aspects are threatened in various ways:
Human will to fight and protect humane psyche from adversaries whether surreal or real while appreciating the beauty of life and nature. The common thread running through the poems is passion: stoking the flame of struggle, awe and thrill of every situation of experience and nature humans find themselves in.
About the author
Titus Mūrīīthi wa Mūturi is successfully an alumnus of Ndaguma Primary School, in Mbeere South, Embu. St.Thomas Moore Nguviu Boys' High School, Embu and Kenyatta University with a Bachelor of Education (Arts) (Hons.), he also enrolled in Masters of Arts (Population Geography) course at the same university.
He has taught geography and CRE at various secondary schools such as St. Christopher Nembure Secondary School, Itabua Day Secondary School; both in Embu County and currently teaching and doubles up as the Director of Studies(Dean) at Kiandai Mixed Day Secondary School in Kirinyaga East Sub-county, Kirinyaga County. He is also the Coordinator of Kirinyaga East Central Zone Strategic Alliance panel of geography examiners.
Tea with Mom- Stories of Mothers by E...
KCPE Made Familiar: Kitabu cha Mazoez...
Kitabu hiki cha mazoezi ya Insha kimeandaliwa mahsusi ili kuwasaidia wanafunzi katika shule za upili kudurusu na kuelewa kwa undani mada inayofunzwa darasani kwa kujibu maswali yaliyo katika kitabu hiki kutoka katika hiyo mada.
Kwa njia hii, kitabu kitawasaidia wanafunzi kutambua kile wanachofunzwa darasani na K.C.P.E.Kitabu hiki pia ni chenye manufaa makubwa kwa walimu ambao wangependa kuwaonyesha wanafunzi wao jinsi maswali huulizwa katika mtihani kwa kuzingatia mada mbalimbali.
Kitabu hiki kina maswali kuhusu mada zinazofunzwa katika darasa cha 4, 5, 6, 7 na 8. Pia kuna dhana - mseto ambazo zinafunzwa katika darasa chochote. Majibu yaliyo baada ya maswali yanakusudiwa kumnoa na kumsukuma mwanafunzi kufaulu kwa kujisomesha mwenyewe (kuwa mwalimu wake binafsi).
KCPE Made Familiar: English Workbook ...
K.C.P.E Made Familiar workbooks are a series of revision books meant to make K.C.P.E. familiar to learners. The benefits of this workbook to learners are immense and always result in improved grades. Some of the benefits include:-
- provision of past K.C.P.E. questions in their original form, arranged in topics, and in the respective forms in which the topics are taught.
- provision of answers, which help learners to work independently.
- exposure of learners to exam-type questions in various topics, thus helping learners to:- internalize concepts by practicing questions from topics already taught in class.
- relate what they are taught in class with K.C.P.E. thereby making K.C.P-E. questions familiar.
- identify their weak areas and aim to continually improve in these areas.
- build confidence through answering/working out questions in any given topic.
The Big Chiefs by Meja Mwangi
Men would talk, as men do, about love and money and power and politics and, acting learned, they would try to outdo one another with their knowledge and their understanding of the political realities and the absurd policies, that bred hate and poverty and genocides.
They would ask themselves and one another questions that were often impossible to understand and even harder to answer.
Did bad politics breed poverty or did poverty breed bad politics? Opinions were many and varied. Friends argued and sometimes came to blows over their views.
Wired Weird by Wairimu Kanyi
It is surreal to sit and start putting the story of your life on paper. It makes you reflect, breaks you, offers mental shifts or aha moments and most of all helps you identify the previous-ness of God all through. You sift through the many precious lessons, achievements, happy & hurtful memories and choices that had lasting impact and those that have had none at all. Mainly you appreciate how each God orchestrated moment is not just for one person’s destiny but is attached to that of others.
This book is written to allow you to paint the story of who you really are and discover the true journey of what we are calling your weird wiring.
Wired Weird is about my life, my story from A-Z. I don't know your story but in here I believe you will find pointers that will allow you to journey through your own life story. You will appreciate your past, present and how that has already shaped you for the future.
No girl is limited by Peter Mbuthia
This book is dedicated to the girl child. The two main characters are the dad and his daughter, where the dad is encouraging her to be a curious person, to be a critical thinker, and to ask questions with the view of gaining knowledge and elevating her self-esteem and confidence and therefore setting herself upon an exciting process of self - empowerment. In a society where the girl child faces ever-increasing challenges, she requires mentors who will walk with her as she is growing up. The girl needs to be affirmed that she is equally competitive and that her dreams are as valid as for those of everyone else. The first and most important line of mentoring should be her parents, especially her dad, who should be fully present and fully engaged in her life. Important lessons for how a girl will relate to the opposite gender are learned from her dad. If her dad treats her well, she will feel secure and confident. This book is relevant for the boy child as well, but the author intends to pay special attention to the girl child.
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni ...
In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity, Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate."
A separated mother of three holding down several jobs, Zala Spencer has managed to survive on the margins of a flourishing economy until she awakens the morning of Sunday, July 20, 1980, to find her teenage son Sonny missing.
As the hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-G...
They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.
When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.
But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police.
Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds.
How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame?
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshik...
What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
How to Save a Life by Eva Carter
Kerry Smith is going to save lives--and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working towards medical school, they are about to sit for their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything.
For nearly eighteen minutes, rising soccer star Joel Greenaway is dead. For nearly eighteen minutes, Kerry performs CPR on her long-time crush. And for nearly eighteen minutes, Tim is too shocked to help. And though they don't yet know it, those eighteen minutes will change the next eighteen years of their lives.
Because as it turns out, saving a life doesn't always guarantee a happy ending.
With his soccer career cut short, Joel lashes out and breaks Kerry's heart by ending their burgeoning relationship with a cruelty that derails her future, while Tim struggles to reconcile his dream of becoming a doctor with the reality of failing to act. As each struggles to move on from the events of that fateful New Year's Eve, their lives can't seem to stop colliding year after year. Pulled by their shared histories and her big heart, Kerry soon finds herself picking up the pieces after both broken men. But when Kerry is the one who needs saving, will anyone be there for her?
As Kerry, Tim, and Joel discover what it means to love, to forgive, and to find your calling, this sweeping novel shows us that there is more than one way to save a life--and more than one path to finding meaning in your own.
The Fundamentals of Strategic Writing...
Do you find writing—whether a correspondence letter, memo, formal email, or report—a challenge?
In a world where everyone is busy, you don’t want your reader to ignore your text because you did not communicate clearly. And they shouldn’t have to read through tons of text to get to your message.
Writing may sound difficult, but it doesn’t have to be, especially focused, objective, and visible high-quality writing, regardless of your professional background or speciality.
That’s what this book is all about—honing your strategic writing skills. Whoever you are writing for should understand what you want to communicate right from the onset, from the first paragraph, and even the first sentence.
This book will give you enduring fundamentals to help you produce accurate, concise, and clear information for your reader.
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Pat...
In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole.
Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante’s classic hero’s journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us.
With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but also bring us to a place of genuine happiness.
