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Mwongozo wa Mapambazuko ya Machweo by...
Mwongozo wa Mapambazuko ya Machweo na hadithi nyingine
Waswahili husema cha mwenzako kikinyolewa chako tia maji. Kanseli imebadili mitindo ya utahini nasi sharti tubadili namna ya kuwaelekeza watahiniwa ili chombo kisiende mrama. Maswali ya karne ya 21 yanadhihirisha utahini wa stadi za umahiri na umilisi wa kazi ya fasihi na si kuiga tu kikasuku.
Mitihani ya kitaifa siku hizi inaegemea maswali yanayohitaji uwazaji wa kina, umilisi wa fasihi, usanisi au mbinu telekezi katika nadharia ya Bloom. Maswali ya kale ya maudhui na wasifu wa wahusika hayajitokezi kwa wingi kwani mtihani unalenga ufahamu mpana wa vitushi na msuko na si ufahamu wa kijuu juu tu.
Nakala hii ni mwongozo adhimu na aula kwa mwanafunzi na mwalimu wa shule ya upili kwani inaweka parauwanja maswala mbalimbali kama vile; Umuhimu wa ploti, umuhimu wa mandhari, umuhimu wa usimulizi, mtindo na mwingiliano matini wa vipengele mbalimbali. Nasadiki na kuamini mambo yatatengemea baada ya kupata nakala hii kwani kinolewacho hupata.
Mwandishi ni Shehe Mutwiri mwanafunzi wa shahada ya uzamifu (PhD) na mwalimu mweledi wa Kiswahili anayefahamu mahitaji ya hadhira lengwa
Strange Encounters by Jacob Aliet
STRANGE ENCOUNTERS
A rapidly evolving creature wants to reproduce. It chances upon five girls who have hired an uber and the girls get into a long, dramatic night once they get into the uber cab, and their lives are changed forever.
Through the diabolical acts of an evil neighbor, one night the hand of a dead person slaps a village boy and leaves him deranged. His mother hires the services of a fearsome witchdoctor to save her son. The villagers are shocked at what the witchdoctor disruptively uproots from their quiet midst.
In a far-flung village in Kenya called Kamser, locals believe that a snake must cleanse itself by licking the fresh grave of the victim it has killed or be crushed by the weight of the departed soul. One of their kinsmen is fatally bitten by a snake and they decide to put the myth to the test with spellbinding results.
A brazen night runner intent on spooking travelers on a moonlit night stumbles upon a savage soldier returning home after an assignment at the battlefield. The night runner’s subject is not the typical lone traveler. What follows is a vigorous reckoning.
After a tragic loss of his beloved daughter, a man suffers a crisis of faith and rigorously studies his faith with an inquiring mind. He engages his pastor in revealing and thought-provoking conversations. What insights does he have?
These are some of the stories in Strange Encounters.
Magnolia Flower: When Beauty Casts a ...
Magnolia Flower'
Akinyi is a young banker with huge ambitions. Her supervisor develops romantic interest in her and she spurns him after which he engineers her dismissal from the bank.
Without a safety net, she ends up in Kayole slum and has to claw her way back through doing odd jobs and hustling until she ends up as an owner of a saloon and spa in upmarket Nairobi. She supplements her income by running a call girl service and one of her clients is an obsessed aging tycoon fighting demons.
It is years after losing her bank job when she stumbles upon a links link to her former supervisor. The vengeance locked in her is awakened. Her quest for revenge draws her into a whirlpool of dramatic events as she pushes back against the forces that try to get the best of her.
She skillfully deploys her wit and dazzling beauty as the men around her struggle to survive unaware of the scent that draws them to a deadly collision course.
What she is carrying changes everything.
The Levant Church: Chronicles of a Da...
LEVANT CHURCH
A young pastor resorts to Old Testament rituals involving the sacrifice of live animals on the altar in a bid to differentiate his new-fangled Church and swell up his congregation. The blood sacrifices open a portal through which spirits flow from another dimension while bringing back the body of a young Maasai woman that was sacrificed at that very spot a century ago by a crazed chieftain.
The young woman’s body is possessed by a vengeful, seductive spirit that was violently killed decades earlier. As the loosened spirits cause havoc amongst his congregation, the seductive spirit stalks the pastor in a murderous rampage that leads the pastor far from his chosen path and family.
He pulls himself back from the precipice and the spirit follows him, unaware that the path that she treads upon leads to its own perdition. As she is drawn toward her damnation, she leaves a piece of herself behind.
Shoreline: Origins by Jacob Aliet
SHORELINE ORIGINS.
During a desperate moment in a hospital ward, a sick man makes a pact with a dark force to save his life. But he later breaks the pact.
A deformed baby girl is later born in the wake of the broken pact. The villagers reject her and demand that she is killed and thrown away because she is a bad omen.
Her desperate mother hides her at the shoreline of the lake and secretly nurses her. A creature finds the baby and adopts her. The baby’s genetic defects provide her with adaptations that enable her to live in water. She returns to the village as a young woman but the villagers attack her believing that she is a demon.
She narrowly survives the horrific attack and escapes back to the lake. Seeing her injured and bleeding, her vengeful lake mother retaliates with devastating consequences.
After the carnage, the villagers assemble fearsome warriors, experienced fishermen and skilled hunters from far and wide to kill the creature. What follows is a series of spell binding events and revelations that lead to the most unexpected finale.
In the middle of this conflict, a doctor doggedly struggles to find if any scientific advancements can be achieved from the disturbing occurrences that shake the rural community.
Dreams and fears, like the land and the lake, meet at the shoreline.
Shoreline Evolution: The Gene Meets T...
SHORELINE EVOLUTION
Convinced to go take part in research that will advance scientific knowledge on survival and evolution, Nyarnam travels to the US, where a multi-disciplinary group of experts examine her unique anatomical features at a prestigious university.
The trip turns out to be more than she bargained for.
Major competing forces are interested in studying her, and they go to extreme lengths to capture her. She finds herself in a war that has nothing to do with her, separated from her family and fighting for her very life.
Amid the turmoil, wounded, lost and broken, Nyarnam discovers capabilities embedded in her DNA that she had not been aware of. However, her biological capabilities may not be enough to save herself and return to her beloved home.
Wema by Wamugi Gichuri
Carcase for Hounds by Meja Mwangi
Meja Mwangi second Mau Mau novel tells the story of an Anvil. The group is under the command of a general called Haraka (Hurry) and the plot revolves around the fight between Haruka's men and British troops led by a Captain Kingsley.
18 The fictional protagonists, Haraka and Kingsley, know each other as Haraka was once chief of a village under Kingsley's jurisdiction. The Captain is under pressure from his superiors, who demand immediate results in the attempts to crush the resistance met with from Haraka and his men.
The narrative displays an obvious ambivalence in characterisation, theme and language. The narrator portrays the protagonists as partly human and considerate, partly brutal and repressive, but with a difference. Haraka is
endowed with the most negative personal traits. He kills three of his own men. Towards the end of 1954, as a result of the so-called villagization programme, about one million Gikuyu were resettled in 800 new villages surrounded by barbed wire and watch towers. This is an indication of the difficulties Mau Mau had to face to get support and supplies.
Son of Woman in Mombasa by Charles Ma...
A sequel to the bestselling The Son of Woman, written in Mangua's now familiar engaging, cynical and humorous style. In this novel, the Son of Woman has come out of jail and moved to Mombasa to start afresh. He is a fully fledged thirty-something, and a married grown- up.
He is unemployed and operating as a black marketeer; but in any case, soon expects to find a job as a Member of Parliament. A satirical and fictional portrayal of the African male, living in a world of rapid social change and transition to some kind of modernity.
Charles Mangua is a bestselling popular fiction writer in Kenya, who has penned other novels: Kanina and I and A Tail in the Mouth.
Parliament of Owls A play by Adipo Si...
Caitaani Mutharaba ini by Ngugi wa Th...
The Moon Also Sets by Osita Ogbu
A story set in a fictional Nigerian village and university environment. Oby struggles to lead a full life in a modern but ever male-dominated world. First she must contend with rejection from the university although she is better qualified than many of her peers.
Then she must face the conflicting demands of education and her career, and her relationship with Chike with whom she pursues a modern and open sexual relationship, but in a society which is still in many ways conservative.
She must then deal with the consequences for her future of becoming pregnant. Osi Ogbu is a Nigerian, at present living and writing in Nairobi.
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiongo
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency.
At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret.
As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics...
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), produced in Nairobi, sharply criticized the injustices of Kenyan society and unequivocally championed the causes of ordinary citizens.
Following his release, Ngugi decided to write only in his native Gikuyu, communicating with Kenyans in one of the many languages of their daily lives, and today he is known as one of the most outspoken intellectuals working in postcolonial theory and the global postcolonial movement.
In this volume, Ngugi wa Thiong'o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which deploys a strategy of imagery, language, folklore, and character to "decolonize the mind." Ngugi confronts the politics of language in African writing; the problem of linguistic imperialism and literature's ability to resist it; the difficult balance between orality, or "orature," and writing, or "literature"; the tension between national and world literature; and the role of the literary curriculum in both reaffirming and undermining the dominance of the Western canon.
Throughout, he engages a range of philosophers and theorists writing on power and postcolonial creativity, including Hegel, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and Aimé Césaire. Yet his explorations remain grounded in his own experiences with literature (and orature) and reworks the difficult dialectics of theory into richly evocative prose.
Beer Pressure by Otieno Opondo
Timon Oywelowo’s path towards a better future is paved with several landmines. As an impressionable teenager, his friends pressure him into taking his first sip of beer. He’s found out, and the ensuing punishment sears the fear of beer into his consciousness.
He focuses on his studies and joins University in Kampala, Uganda, with only one job—getting his undergraduate degree. But is it that clear-cut? Outside of the University walls lies a totally different world. It is a world of unchecked freedom. A world where beer flows freely, immorality reigns supreme, partying is a way of life, and the desire to make it by any means is what counts.
Timon finds himself at a crossroads: will he keep on the straight and narrow, or will he veer off the rails and careen down the steep slope of destruction?
Chomz: A Novella by Nanu (No:1 Umbea ...
Mombaaz is known for two things: supernatural creatures called yovulis that live among humans and, Umbea – gossip. One of them is bound to bewitch you.
Chomz is a fantasy fiction novella about Angie, a Nairobian who comes to Mombaaz after her family’s fall into chaos following her father’s tragic death. Angie, determined that becoming an influencer will make her life easier, finds a surprisingly cheap AirBnb in Old Town, overlooking the channel.
The AirBnb rumored to be built by Kitwana, a long-forgotten mythological figure, is filled with antiques as perfect as the day they were made and a grande wall-length mirror. Angie’s curiosity is piqued when the local street food vendor, Mheshimiwa Fatma, warns her against the AirBnB’s mysterious past and strange happenings.
Angie is intrigued but disbelieving of Mheshimiwa Fatma’s warnings until she meets Chomz, the talking goat and host of the AirBnb, appears offering a fantastical adventure through history, revealing Kitwana’s history and an unforgivable curse that killed his whole family. Chomz offers Angie a gift from Kitwana’s private collection. The only catch, she needs to enter the grande mirror, into a pocket world to pick it.
Angie quickly finds herself entangled in Kitwana’s past as she comes face to face with creatures and myths that were long believed to be dead, and a curse that threatens to steal her soul.
