Kwani? Series
The Kwani? Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Series include titles such as The True Story of David Munyakei by Billy Kahora, Kizuizini by Joseph Muthee, Tale of Kasaya by Eva Kasaya, a re-issue of The Stonehills of Maragoli by Stanley Gazemba and To Be A Man.
One Day I will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlor, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael...
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To See The Mountain And Other Stories
The Caine Prize for African Writing is named in celebration of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, who was Chairman of the 'Africa 95' arts festival in Europe and Africa in 1995 and for nearly 25 years, Chairman of the Booker Prize management committee. The Prize is open...
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The Stone Hills of Maragoli
"Life as a labourer is hard, but when Ombima, commits what he considers a "necessary" crime and watches the events that unfold, things change. He tries to cover up his deeds, which come to involve the entire village, bringing into focus human nature, relationships, love and breaking lives and vows....
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Tale of Kasaya
"Before I went in I asked to use the toilet. The roof was quite low and if I stood straight I would touch it. The piece of sheet separating the two had large holes and one could see the person in the other room. Both the toilet and bathroom were built on top of a drainage trench, on the floor were...
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To Be A Man, poetry anthology
" ...I do not want
to be crippled
before I can walk,
to be shoved
in the face of machismo
and whipped
to take it up
in the name of being a man..."
Ndanu Mungala ( Breaking through)
"...Now she falls,
And now she bleeds.
The camera takes it all in.
It is seven...
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The True Story of David Munyakei
In April 1992, David Sadera Munyakei, a newly employed clerk at the Central Bank of Kenya started noticing irregularities in the export compensation claims he was processing. On July 31st 2006, Kenya's biggest whistleblower passed away in rural obscurity, 14 years after exposing the Goldenberg...
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Kizuizini
" Licha ya kuitwa 'mwanangu' na mzungu aliyemwajiri, Aprili 10 1954 Joseph Muthee alihadaiwa na mwajiri wake Kepteni C.O'Hagan, mlowezi aliyemiliki mashamba Lusoi, eneo la Nyeri, Mkoa wa Kati nchini Kenya, na kukabidhiwa kwa serikali ya mbeberu akituhumiwa kwa kuwa mmoja wa Mau Mau, mashujaa...
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