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Strange Tides by Mike Turere
This story is an excellent example of how a simple action can have an unexpected and powerful impact on a person's life. The story follows Sanaet, a young Maasai warrior, who is faced with the difficult decision of leaving his family and hundreds of his father's cattle behind to pursue his dreams of learning the language of the white.
The story captures the emotional turmoil of Sanaet as he struggles to come to terms with his decision and the consequences it may have for his family and his people. The conversations between Sanaet and Lankenua, his close friend, are particularly engaging as they explore the implications of his decision. The story also has a three dimensional life experience in the moment when the society was not ready to accept changes.
The story is beautifully written, with vivid descriptions of the landscapes and the characters. It provides an insightful exploration of the cultural dynamics of a traditional Maasai society, while also exploring the universal themes of courage and ambition.
The Adventures of Monarch: You Were M...
A classic story of becoming and building courage with the help of friends!
Inspirational and heart warming, You Were Made to Fly is a story of a caterpillar on a journey to becoming the dazzling Monarch butterfly she was created to be. With beautiful and charming illustrations, this is a book adults will enjoy reading over and over with their kids as readers learn about building resilience, celebrating each stage of growth, facing fears, and celebrating the support of community.
Inspire your precious little ones on how to face hard times and walk confidently through life to fully live out their dreams! Perfect for family reading and for early, eager readers.
HADITHI 101 by Edward Ondachi
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Get it Right Maths paper 2 KCSE Revis...
This book offers a comprehensive summary of all the topics required for the KCSE Mathematics Paper 2 examination. It is a suitable revision tool for students in Forms 3 and 4. The book is especially suitable to candidates who are about to sit for the K.C.S.E. Mathematics Paper 2 Examination. Teachers of mathematics who would like to expose their students to K.C.S.E-type questions will also find the book very useful.
The surest way to understand mathematics is to practice answering mathematics questions. To assist in this, the book has captured all concepts in Form 3 and Form 4 topics in the 50 test papers. The 24 questions in each test paper are varied to cover as many topics as possible.
The listing of all the solved and supplementary questions after the summary of each topic makes this book well suited for students who like using topical revision books.
HOW MUCH? The life of your money by F...
Cabral Pinto: Willy Mutunga Undercove...
For over 30 years, Willy Mutunga has blazed the trail in starting many important public conversations about remaking Kenya and the wider world into a better society. As a public intellectual, he has consistently challenged convenient stereotypes in an effort to bring down the social barriers erected by fear and ignorance, and led in persuading individuals and communities to re-examine widely held prejudices and to start difficult dialogues.
Between 2006 and 2011, Mutunga wrote a weekly column in the Saturday Nation. It is from these contributions, under the pen name Cabral Pinto – a combination of the surnames of the two African ideologues he greatly admired — that the 146 articles in this volume are selected.
The clarity of Willy’s moral voice is unmistakable on a broad variety of themes, ranging from exhortations for an alternative leadership that would deliver a human rights state, to an unapologetic call for mass action as a peaceful way to bring change. This collection by Cabral Pinto is the story of Kenya’s long democracy struggle, told by a pro-democracy activist.
Oral Literature of the Maasai by Naom...
Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya.
The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances.
The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai – people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order.
This book recommends itself to the general reader. However, the book is more than this: it includes stimulating discussions of examples, as well as review questions and exercises. The book is highly recommended to students of oral literature at secondary school level and at the university.
Family Affair by Wandera Ogana
The demise of an old family head heralds a protracted and bitter clamour for the inheritance of his property. Maina, who ranks an outsider to the throne, will stop at nothing to see to it that he remains in the mix. Little does he realize that his untoward exploits are his main undoing. Consequently, he is a disgrace unto death.
Place of Cool Waters by Ndirangu Gith...
When Jude Wilson decides to travel halfway across the world to visit the graves of his childhood Boy Scout heroes, he unwittingly signs up for a lot more than he imagined. Growing up in the placid little Pacific Northwest town of Clarksville could never adequately prepare him for what he encounters in the vibrant, mercurial streets of Nairobi, where context defines meaning and words alone are not always sufficient to communicate across a cultural gap.
He meets Qadir Mohamed—the affable manager at the youth hostel where he is staying—and a valuable friendship develops between two people from disparate backgrounds with seemingly little in common.
In Kenya, the past is never far away, though it is sometimes remembered differently by insiders. As a result, the unexamined triumphal legends from Jude’s scouting days begin to unravel in the face of new discoveries. It is, however, a disastrous taxi ride and ensuing case of mistaken identity that emerge as the defining moments of this life-changing trip, leading him to stumble upon truths about himself that he was previously unaware of.
Heart of Surrender by Bosibori Bogonko
The story of Hannah is in many ways our story. From beginning to end the characters honor their part in bringing alive the heart-wrenching decisions that we sometimes have to make when life throws us a curveball. What is it that takes us through those moments?
Regardless of the situations we go through, how do we arise and come out better and stronger, clearer about who we are? How do we honor our truth regardless of the circumstances?
Heart of Surrender subtly reminds us that we are not in control, and when we let go, there is greater power within us that enables us to rise beyond the most challenging circumstances. The bonus is finding our authentic self, living our truth, and above reproach.
Simply told, Heart of Surrender calls us to self-reflect on our journeys, then like the eagle choose to die slowly, or go through the painful process of renewing ourselves at different chapters of our lives.
Lwanda Magere by Okoiti Omtatah
OKOITI OMTATA is an upcoming Kenyan playwright who has won the Nairobi Theatre Academy Original Playwriting Competition several times, including its inaugral award in 1990.
Though he has written many original plays, Luanda Magere is his first published work in the E.A.E.P. Drama Library. Luanda Magere is an eponymous account of an invincible Luo legend, skilfully written in a poetic language that is enriched with traditional idioms, riddles and proverbs.
The interplay between fate and personal disposition in an individual's destiny puts the play in the class of such works as Sophocle's King Oedipus. It is a drama of love, hate, betrayal and death.
The Art of Mcing by Dr Ofweneke and M...
The General and I by Helen Pilale Nka...
This is the story of an imposing military man whose appointment to head the country's security apparatus made Kenyans feel relatively safe again after multiple terror attacks.
A disciplined patriot and a fitness-enthusiast, Nkaissery’s sudden death, on the eve of a General Election, sent shock waves worldwide. In the list of his unfinished work, was his wish to write his life story.
His widow, Helen, steps up courageously to bear witness and realize the General’s dream. She weaves this memoir in the context of a Maasai cultural world set against a fast-changing political landscape.
At the Center of the World In Ethiopi...
This is a non-fiction book set in contemporary Ethiopia describing major aspects of the humanitarian and development work in a huge and hugely important African country. Major global themes and issues play out in the cut and thrust of the day to day work of the narrator, a senior UN official leading a major operation in the country.
Lessons from the Streets, The Art of ...
The Blurb
Lessons from the Streets ~ The Art of Money
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~ Vincent Ogutu
 Inside these pages
 Lessons From The Streets ~ The Art of Money, the author’s sixth book, is an acknowledgement of our street vendors, their hard work and their resilience. It defines hustles, side hustles and the informal businesses which while thought less of, are actually one of the key drivers of our economy. In his unique captivating style, the author tells the story of our heroes and heroines - the street entrepreneurs, leaving the reader in no doubt that our informal businesses are therefore deserving of greater recognition and appreciation. The book is also a call to all of us to realise the potential that is literally and figuratively on our streets, not only for others, but for anyone who will take these profound lessons and make them work for oneself.
 The Author
Vincent Ogutu, an avid reader and prolific author, is the founder of Entrepreneurs Corner, an online entrepreneurial ecosystem. He is also the Chairman of Forteleza Investments Limited and a Business Coach under VOVO Valuable Observations. During the last 5 years, the author has mentored entrepreneurs from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzaniathrough the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP). With that, he has proven the fact that most of the principles of entrepreneurship are universal.
Vincent’s second book Who are the Top Billionaires in Africa won the African Christian Authors Book Awards (ACABA) in the 2022 Awards in the Business and Finance Category.
Footprints in the Sand by Stanley Gaz...
A train is huffing and puffing across the Kenyan landscape. It looks like something out of the early colonial era, but inside it is fitted with everything a modern passenger could wish for. Aboard are people from all corners of the nation and walks of life.
They have traversed radically different paths to get here: worked in the gloomy warehouses of Nairobi’s industrial districts, made drug deals in the foothills of the country’s mountains, migrated from their upcountry villages to the city. Their stories are entangled with those of the people who were not fortunate enough to win a ticket – mothers and fathers, street hustlers and gangsters, generous strangers and mysterious lovers.
Footprints in Sand is a story of Kenya at the turn of the millennium, about crime and corruption, hope and ambition, pasts that its people try to leave behind and the future for which they wait. This novel, long in the making, is a modern Kenyan epic that travels along forking paths and between genres and modes of storytelling. It is an indictment of postcolonial greed, a crime novel without a villain and a fairy-tale about enchanted objects and dangerous encounters.