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African Fiction Books in Kiambu

Homegoing-HB

Homegoing-HB

Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others
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House of Hunger, The

House of Hunger, The

Marechera made an immediate impact with the publication of The House of Hunger. The novella and nine short stories, most of them set in Zimbabwe, symbolise both home and country as the ‘house of hunger’, the place of madness and violence and despair. Marechera describes a world in which tenderness h
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House of Rust, The

House of Rust, The

The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father
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House of Stone H/C

House of Stone H/C

Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea. Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he’s almost pa
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House of Stone P/B

House of Stone P/B

Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea. Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he’s almost pa
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How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories Vol.2

How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories Vol.2

This second volume of How to Spell Naija in price shownort Stories contains the final fifty stories and raises the high bar set by the first. These tales boldly range over Nigeriana, with kidnappers, houseboys, bishops and suicide bombers wreaking domestic and hilarious havoc. The tales are set in the fu
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Hundred Wells of Salaga

Hundred Wells of Salaga

Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infig
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Hunger eats a man

Hunger eats a man

When Father Gumede, known as priest, loses his job as a farmhand, he realizes he can’t afford to love his neighbor as he does himself. Despondent and enraged, priest cuts off all ties to the church and politics, determined to make a living – at whatever cost. It will take a strange story written by
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I Do not Come to you by Chance

I Do not Come to you by Chance

Under the avuncular wing of Cash Daddy, Kingsley is catapulted into the fast-money world of email scamming where he discovers a profitable talent for persuasive storytelling. But, as the stakes grow higher and Cash Daddy grows more ambitious, Kingsley begins to realise he is in way over his head and
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IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES

IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES

Highly original ‘detective’ stories with unique setting and characters featuring Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of ‘traditional build’, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency
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INCIDENTS AT THE SHRINE

INCIDENTS AT THE SHRINE

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri’s lyrical, poetic an
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INFINITE RICHES

INFINITE RICHES

In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This final chapter in Azaro’s adventures is a explosive and h
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J.E. Sibi-Okumu Collected Plays 2004-2014

J.E. Sibi-Okumu Collected Plays 2004-2014

J.E. Sibi-Okumu
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Jagua Nana

Jagua Nana

Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life – with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature.
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Joys of Motherhood

Joys of Motherhood

First published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society. Unable to conceive in her first marriage, Nnu is banished to Lagos where she succeeds in becoming a mother. Then, against the backdrop of World War II, Nnu must fiercely pro
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July’s People

July’s People

For years, it has been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation’. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family – liberal whites – are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smale
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Jungfrau and other short stories

Jungfrau and other short stories

The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in Engliprice shown whether in Africa or elsewhere. Each year the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. This year’s winner is Mary
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Kalahari Typing School For Men, The

Kalahari Typing School For Men, The

Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent’ reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case – a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reass
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Kindness of Enemies,The

Kindness of Enemies,The

“An absorbing novel . . . reminds us of the complexity of the web woven by those threads of faith, nationality, politics and history.”—New York Times Book Review
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Kintu

Kintu

Kintu
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Kintu H/C

Kintu H/C

Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debut.
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Knots: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)

Knots: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)

From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes “a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman’s return to war-ravaged Mogadishu” (Time)
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Kwani ? 4

Kwani ? 4

The fourth volume of Kwani? presents a multitude of new literary voices from Kenya and the African diaspora. Well-known contemporary Kenyan writers, Binyavanga Wainaina, Muthoni Garland, and Doreen Baingana share these pages with fast rising newcomers: Billy Kahora, Mukoma wa Ngugi and Andia Kisia.
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Kwani 05, PART 2

Kwani 05, PART 2

This second 400 pages of a twin edition further examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections. Here, writers, photographers, poets and cartoonists provide further collective narratives on what we were before, and what we became, during the epochal first 100 days of 2008.
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Kwani? 5 PART 1

Kwani? 5 PART 1

This is the first of a twin edition that examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections is available from bookstores from February 28th. In the two issues, over 50 writers, photographers, poets and cartoonists provide a collective narrative on what we were before, and what
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Lagoon

Lagoon

It’s up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity’s first contact with an alien ambassador—and prevent mass extinction—in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action.
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Lament for the Fallen

Lament for the Fallen

A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before – a man who is perhaps something more than human.
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LAST ORDERS AT HARRODS

LAST ORDERS AT HARRODS

Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) – a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in
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Lazarus Effect, The

Lazarus Effect, The

Voinjama Johnson is a woman on the brink of a dark, downward spiral. Suffering from misfortunes past and present, all Vee has is her work as an investigative journalist to hang on to. Now her career, like her sanity, is under fire. A revenant haunts Vee’s steps – during her blackouts, the ghost of a
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Let us conspire and other stories

Let us conspire and other stories

These stories emerged from workshops held over three weeks in May 2022 by Jahazi Press in collaboration with creative writing teaching platform Saseni! We also solicited stories from some of the most talented writers working in Kenya today including Idza Luhunyo, Kiprop Kimutai and Dennis M?gaa. The
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Lights of Pointe-Noire, The

Lights of Pointe-Noire, The

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015
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Links: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)

Links: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)

Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgic trip –his last residence there was a jail cell.U. S troops have come and gone and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relie
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Lion and the Jewel, The

Lion and the Jewel, The

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba vilage of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the jewel), ‘a true village belle’ and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the village, Lakunle, the young teacher, influenced by w
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Love is Power or Something Like That

Love is Power or Something Like That

In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish pepper soup: this is a searing portrait of life in an utterly modern Nigeria.
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Lusaka Punk & Other Stories

Lusaka Punk & Other Stories

Now entering its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in Engliprice shown whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection brings together eighteen short storiesthe five price shownortlisted stories,
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MADAMS,THE

MADAMS,THE

Thandi loves her life. She loves her cute son Hintsa, her witty husband Mandla, her comfortably challenging work with the tourism board, and her best friends Nosizwe and Lauren. But she has to admit – its tough being Superwoman in South Africa today. Try being the perfect traditional wife and Africa
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Magic Lamp, The

Magic Lamp, The

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams.
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Maps

Maps

A strikingly lyrical novel, this is the story of Askar, an orphan whose mother died in childbirth and whose father died in the bloody war dividing Somalia and Ethiopia before he was born. Askar is taken in by the kind-hearted Misra, a woman from his village who cares for him until, as a precocious a
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Memoirs of A Porcupine,(US)

Memoirs of A Porcupine,(US)

All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandiprice shown surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his
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Memory of Love,The

Memory of Love,The

In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep. In the capital hospital, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. Elsewhere in the hospital lies a dying man who was young during the country’s tu
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Memory This Size & Other Stories, A

Memory This Size & Other Stories, A

A chronically short-sighted young man finds himself the target of a preacher’s miracle cure… Despite his American street phrases and his fistful of dollars, a prodigal sons visit to his Sierra Leone home does not go quite as planned…A medical student blinded in an accident seem to lose everything bu
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MEN OF THE SOUTH

MEN OF THE SOUTH

In Johannesburg three men’s lives revolve around one woman. Mfundo is a struggling jazz musician. All hope of ever becoming famous end when he gets into a macho fight with an international R&B artist. No one is keen to employ him any longer, and Mfundo takes the role of house-husband. But his girlfr
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Mine Boy

Mine Boy

First published in 1946, this novel exposed the condition of black South Africans under a white regime. It presents a portrait of labour discrimination, appalling housing conditions and one man’s humanitarian act of defiance.
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MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS,THE

MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS,THE

* The ninth book in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series; Little, Brown are publishing in hardback It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letterprice showne is compel
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Morality For Beautiful Girls

Morality For Beautiful Girls

* In this third volume of highly original ‘detective’ stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work. THE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the en
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My Life in crime

My Life in crime

The true story of John Kiriamiti — a participant in some of the most heinous bank robberies and heists in Kenya in the late 1960s and early 70s. In raw and candid language, Kiriamiti tells the story of how he dropped out of high school at a tender age of 15 and went from pick pocketing, to car break
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Nearly All the Men In Lagos Are Mad

Nearly All the Men In Lagos Are Mad

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care.
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Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiat
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