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Notes on Grief book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
KShs1,290.00Add to cartGrief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.
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The Trouble with Nigeria book by Chinua Achebe (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThe only trouble with Nigeria is the failure of leadership, because with good leaders Nigeria could resolve its inherent problems such as tribalism; lack of patriotism; social injustice and the cult of mediocrity; indiscipline; and corruption.
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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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Baby Trouble book by Sally Singhateh
KShs960.00Add to cartFor Jogob, trouble begins when Mr. Ousman Ndow kidnaps her and forces her to live with him and his baby, Nam. Mr. Ndow mistreats Jogob at every turn and will not listen to her when she swears that she is not the mother of his baby. In her attempt to run away from the abusive life in Mr. Ndow’s house, she discovers a lot about Mr. Ndow’s past, and her own. The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is her life are eventually brought together in a very captivating way.
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Return to Paradise book by Yusuf K. Dawood (Author)
KShs960.00Add to cartThe fortunes of a refugee family are traced against the the backdrop of Idi Amin’s rule and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. The family travels to England and later to Mecca, delving into the mysteries of the Hajj. The author has published regularly in the Kenyan Sunday Nation for twenty years.
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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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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa book by Author: Adam Hochschild
KShs1,890.00Add to cartIn the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million–all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.
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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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