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Decision Points – Memoirs of a Workin...
This book is a discussion on intentional parenting. It revolves around the decision points that Esther, a working mother, made, as she intentionally raised her children between the ages of 0 -12 years. Esther openly shares her memoirs on her parenting journey; the highs and lows, as well as the challenges she has gone through and how she has handled the said challenges. Decision points is an invaluable guide for anyone involved in raising children from 0 -12 years, including educators, grandparents, parents, support teams and the extended family. It is a voice for many working mothers who are grappling with the challenge of raising children in today’s world. It is also an invaluable guide to young mothers who wish to learn from the experiences of other working mothers.
Grow in Prayer and Hearing God by Sop...
Gems of Healthy Living by Jemimah Nzola
Do you want to feel good about yourself? Do you want to look good? Does your emotional well-being matter? How is your mental prowess? How do you relate with others? Let’s talk about financial wellness…. are you working for money or is money working for you? What’s your worldview; do you believe in a deity? Is your life wholesome? We all desire all-rounded wellness. We all deserve empowerment in managing our health and living life well. We need to live a life devoid of ailments and diseases. “How do we do this?” I am glad you asked…. The fool-proof way to achieve this all-rounded wellness is through making piecemeal changes that will eventually reflect wholesomely. These could be: – Lifestyle changes, fitness, nutrition, and even changes in how you rest and rejuvenate. “Where do I start?” you ask. “The Gems of Healthy Living (All-rounded Wellness) book is here. It is loaded with insights and wisdom on wholesome living as well as easy steps towards transforming your life step-by-step in order to lead a fruitful and fulfilled life. The author- Jemimah Nzola is passionate about all things health and wellness. She is not only a qualified holistic nutritionist, she is also committed and devoted to continuous research on wellness and holistic wellness. Read this book and make it your wellness bible and see your life transform to a wholesome all-rounded lifestyle devoid of diseases, stress, social misnomers, and other maladies. Enjoy the read, buy for a dear one and let’s add life to our lives!
Unfit for Society by Munira Hussein
From the problems of the girls and women grappling with the challenges of living in a patriarchal culture to the allure of terrorist groups, Munira Hussein writing in the voice of what one of her characters describes as the children of the north brings a unique perspective from a region of Kenya which, despite its rich cultural traditions, is mostly associated in the popular imagination, with all the wrong things; violence, insecurity and underdevelopment.
This compelling collection of stories from a young and upcoming writer shows there is more. Written in the exuberant flair of a poet, it celebrates the resilience of a people striving to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment, the soaring aspirations of the younger generation for a better life and stands as a challenge to society to re-examine its ethos; some of which have clearly been overtaken by time.
Recently shortlisted for the African Writers Award for the short story Powder in the Wind, Ms. Hussein has the grit to curve herself a niche in the literary sphere and Unfit for Society is only but the first word in what promises to be a fruitful writing career.
Prof. Goro Kamau, Associate Professor of Literature, Laikipia University
The Nest by Jackie Owusu-Biney
Both Kevin and Linda feel ready for it. They have been preparing their whole life to experience it – independence. However, no matter how careful Linda is or how macho Kevin thinks he is, neither are truly prepared for the journey ahead. Step into their world as these two leave their parents’ nests to create their own. Look into some of the challenges they face as they both realise life isn’t terribly easy. Jackie Owusu-Biney invites you to find the path to your own independence, the steps toward building your own nest, learning many necessary life skills as you go. Welcome to the epic journey that is: THE NEST
And This is How to Stay Alive by Shin...
Nyokabi's world unravels after her brother Baraka's death by suicide. When an eccentric auntie gives Nyokabi a potion that sends her back in time to when Baraka was still alive, it becomes her only goal to keep him that way.
Nyokabi learns that storytellers may be the carriers of time, but defying the past comes with its own repercussions.
My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Re...
In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees.
They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy.
From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations.
The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn’t it being widely reported?
At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
Kiss Me Goodbye by Wairiuko wa Nyambura
She thinks the handsome but jobless boyfriend loves her. Then she finds out about his dirty tricks, his heartless diary, and his timed writing project. So, he wants her to inspire him to write a romance novel then end their romantic relationship at the advanced stage of his novel writing, huh?
He finds himself at her mercy after an unexpected turn of events. She also finds herself at the mercy of another jealous woman who wants to snatch the mysterious boyfriend from her. The other rich woman, who cannot win his love, incites the ex-girlfriend to teach him a lesson. Shouldn't she protect him instead?
Now, she's unsure of whom to side with. Should she listen to the bossy, angry, revengeful and lovelorn inciter whose financial and moral conditional support requires her to break her ex-boyfriend's heart too? But then her loved-up ex-boyfriend apologizes, wants reconciliation, and tries to win back her affections...
Cocktail from the Savannah by Ciku Ki...
Story of Masikonde, a Maasai moran living large in the city, a ladies’ man who loves his wife, Sinta, yet can’t stay faithful. He falls in love, again, with an unlikely candidate, Terian.
Are his philanderer tendencies from cultural conditioning, or is he just an unfaithful man using culture as an excuse?
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a...
A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all, inclusive to all, by a rising star of the global climate movement
Leading climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fierce, fearless spirit, new perspective, and superstar bona fides to the biggest issue of our time. In A Bigger Picture, her first book, she shares her story as a young Ugandan woman who sees that her community bears disproportionate consequences to the climate crisis.
At the same time, she sees that activists from African nations and the global south are not being heard in the same way as activists from white nations are heard. Inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, in 2019 Nakate became Uganda’s first Fridays for Future protestor, awakening to her personal power and summoning within herself a commanding political voice.
Nakate’s mere presence has revealed rampant inequalities within the climate justice movement. In January 2020, while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of five international delegates, including Thunberg, Nakate’s image was cropped out of a photo by the Associated Press. The photo featured the four other activists, who were all white. It highlighted the call Nakate has been making all along: for both environmental and social justice on behalf of those who have been omitted from the climate discussion and who are now demanding to be heard.
From a shy little girl in Kampala to a leader on the world stage, A Bigger Picture is part rousing manifesto and part poignant memoir, and it presents a new vision for the climate movement based on resilience, sustainability, and genuine equity.
With Eyes Wide Open by Erick B. Gichuru
With Eyes Wide Open Novel is a Raw African account of losing innocence, self-discovery and the madness that lies in between!
With Eyes Wide Open Novel is about us. We all have a dark side! At some point in our lives, we’ve done or said something that we are truly ashamed of. For some of us, our forefathers are still turning in their graves. They say we become different versions of ourselves before we become who we truly are.
Set in the heart of Africa and inspired by life itself, the author vividly captures the messy human experience that might hit too close to home.
Author: Erick B. Gichuru
Genre: Literary Fiction; Romance
Type: Print Paperback
Length: 273 Pages
Publisher: Thelocco Publishers
No New Land by M. G. Vassanji
Nurdin Lalani and his family, Asian immigrants from Africa, have come to the Toronto suburb of Don Mills only to find that the old world and its values pursue them.
A genial orderly at a downtown hospital, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl.
Although he is innocent, traditional propriety prompts him to question the purity of his own thoughts. Ultimately, his friendship with the enlightened Sushila offers him an alluring freedom from a past that haunts him, a marriage that has become routine, and from the trials of coping with teenage children. Introducing us to a cast of vividly drawn characters within this immigrant community, Vassanji is a keen observer of lives caught between one world and another.
The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop.
Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries.
What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngugi wa ...
This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru. It proved so powerful, especially in its use of song, that it was banned and was probably one of the factors leading to Ngugi's detention without trial. The original Gikuyu edition went to three printings in the first three months of publication.
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y Davis
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.
For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom.
The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
