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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.

'Scorching, gripping, ultimately lovely.' Margaret Atwood 'A compulsive read Just brilliant. Adebayo is an astounding storyteller - an exciting addition to the emerging voices in African writing.' Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, author of Kintu. 'A thoroughly contemporary style that is all her own ...

Boy, Interrupted

"A searing, heartbreaking love story set in the civil war years in Liberia. Told in a direct, idiomatic style, the story takes us from the narrator's difficult childhood years in Monrovia to a meeting with Kou, the beautiful girl who will change his life forever. Together they will witness their...

'A hallucinogenic post-apocalyptic carnival ride - Nikhil Singh has a strange and intriguing mind.' Lauren Beukes, author of Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Zoo City 'Nikhil Singh writes a prose as lush and crocodile-infested as the rainforests in the Outzone.' Mehul Gohil, winner of the 2010...

Hiding in Plain Sight

"Absorbing and provocative [Farah's] characters are given heft through personal histories and anecdotes, and he writes evocatively about everything from Nairobi traffic to Kenyan game reserves to, importantly, how Somalis are seen not just through the eyes of others, but through their own." (4...

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories

Africa's most important literary award - International Herald Tribune Entertaining. Deserves to be widely read - Sunday Independent, South Africa Rewards its readers again and again - The Huffington Post, USA Dazzling and splendidly diverse - The Times, UK

'This is the novel Uganda—and not just Buganda—has been waiting for. Here, history comes alive in such sensual and accurate detail. For many of us who draw a blank when seeking pre-colonial family histories, this multi-layered story makes us re-imagine, reclaim, and yes, re-live what...

In contemporary Nairobi, a young man named Moses Odidi Oganda bleeds to death in the streets, murdered by police.As his lifeblood—full of memories, colors, and songs—pours into the dust, the stories that tumble forth reveal the violent upheaval of Kenya's own life, reaching from the Mau...

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Nigeria is under militarydictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships...

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...

African Violet and Other Stories

The life and times of a war hero who discovers the oddities of the world and returns to declare his own form of independenceAn inveterate chancer and drunk gives a command performance as he outwits his bossSensation grips Malawi as a homosexual caught in the act takes a righteous standA sister and...

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...

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....

"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...

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...

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...

" 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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