Category: Kenyan Authors
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The herdsman’s daughter book by Bernard Chahilu (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartRebecca deceives herself that she is a sophisticated modern woman. Her story is a portrait of her evolution in a society standing on the threshold of change. She desperately seeks self-discovery in a society often suspicious of and sometimes outrightly hostile towards a girl who enjoys the benefits of modern western education, perceiving her as spoilt and a bad influence on the younger generation. Yet elements of this very society do not hesitate to take advantage of her youthful naivety.
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Prettyboy, Beware book by Barbara Kimenye (Author), Dessalegn Rahmato (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartMatthew is nicknamed “Prettyboy”, forced by circumstances to leave his shanty home to live with well-off family friends at the coast in Kenya. Life at the coastal town bustles with fast living, excitement, hopes, fears, danger, and illusions of the good life. But behind all this, tragedy lurks. The novel is one of a series developed to advance written and spoken English amongst lower secondary school students.
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Before the Rooster Crows book by Peter Kimani (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThis is the story of Muriuki, a young man from a Kenyan village who leaves him home and back-breaking job on a coffee plantation for the city, to pursue wealth, and happiness with his childhood sweetheart Mumbi. But life is not straightforward for the young lovers who become steeped in the quagmire of Kenyan politics
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A Nose for Money book by Francis B. Nyamnjoh (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThe novel presents a graphic picture of the frustrations engendered by a society that values wealth over love. The author interweaves traditional African culture and modern politics to compellingly capture the urban African psyche.
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VERDICT OF DEATH book by ONDUKO BW’ATEBE (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThe Verdict of Death follows Morii a Purser, who gets framed by his colleague Mutua for theft and is sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He goes through the harshest of conditions in a Kenyan prison and all one can ask is, does he have hope? Will he make it out alive and get back at Mutua?
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My Heart on Trial book by F.M.Genga- Idowu (author)
KShs960.00Add to cartA novel from a woman writer, set against a backdrop of a rich but dying Kenyan culture. The story tells of secret burdens, moral decay and political callousness – both a work of fiction, and a challenge to society to face up to itself.
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Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011 book by Daniel Branch
KShs4,890.00Add to cartOn December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people’s dream remains elusive.
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THE MISSING LINKS book by Tobias O. Otieno
KShs960.00Add to cartThe events of this novel are played out against a background of tension and contradiction between the rural and urban experience, squalor and affluence, reality and superstition. Nyakane, a high- school student in Nairobi, falls pregnant and is forced to return to Odendo, village of her husband’s forefathers.
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A Journey Within book by Florence Mbaya (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartAfter completing her undergraduate studies Monika Saliku anxiously waits to see what shape her career will take. For her it is a foregone conclusion that she will get an appointment in the city and savour the familiar throb of urban life. However she receives a setback when she is appointed to a bucolic outpost settling for a career she loathes. As she journeys to the small dusty town her struggle to self-realisation has just begun.
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Devil on the Cross book by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Author), Chinua Achebe (Series Editor), Namwali Serpell
KShs960.00Add to cartAn impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature.
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Petals of Blood book by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Author), Chinua Achebe, Moses Isegawa
KShs960.00Add to cartThe puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya.