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This epic novel opens with the explosive 1969 Russia Massacre, setting Kisumu on a path of political turmoil. Amid the chaos, twelve brave boys and girls form K1, a resistance movement fighting for justice. Branded as criminals by the government and hailed as heroes by the people, K1’s fight for freedom mirrors Kisumu's own struggle against corruption and oppression.
Spanning decades, this gripping tale follows K1 as they grow from children to men stumbling into exhausted adulthood in a world full of danger, manipulation, and survival. It’s a powerful story of struggle, bleak hope, and Kisumu’s unyielding fight for dignity.
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INHERITED DANGER
Inherited Danger is a compelling collection of eight stories about hardship-hardened women, troubled artists, and unbowed Africans confronting power, violence, ambition, loss, and survival. Set across Kenya, Uganda, and the wider African cultural landscape, moving from Nairobi’s dangerous slums and Uganda’s guerrilla-controlled forests to the worlds of politics, business, folklore, Congolese rumba and Kenyan benga music, these stories explore the extraordinary choices ordinary people make when confronted by danger, betrayal, poverty, and the relentless pursuit of a better life.
Set in Nairobi’s Eastlands, a bubbling, formidable and treacherous sprawl where nobody wins, this is a novel of hustlers—about passion, manipulation, and deception. A fierce yet troubled business-woman fights morally ambiguous characters and makes treacherous alliances. She makes hash of the arrogant male romantic interest through her offhand sexuality. Her ugly colleague is desperate, calculating, manipulative. This is a story about misfits. An ugly woman who is a wall climber, a cripple in a wheelchair who calls the shots, a pastor who is a big con, a shylock who wants to be an MP, a ghetto thug who wants to own a matatu.
WAYWARD EASTLANDERS
THE NEW GIRL IN MOMBASA
Wanjiru flees her failed life in Nairobi for Mombasa, haunted by her past. In a Nyali penthouse, she becomes Barack’s housemate—himself fleeing his own ghosts—and they form a fragile bond that teeters on the edge of love. As passion and past wounds collide, they struggle for redemption, belonging, and a fresh start. Will love be enough to heal their wounds? Set in Mombasa, Kenya’s famed coastal city of rich history and Swahili culture, this novel, with its stunning emotional intensity and haunting sexuality, is a haunting look at loneliness, the struggle for love, belonging and independence.
HUNTER AND GATHERER
Otis Dinos, a gifted yet tormented guitarist, claws his way from the smokey dens of Kisumu's backstreet clubs into the cutthroat Nairobi music scene. But fame comes at a price. As his raw talent thrusts him into the limelight, he's consumed by a whirlwind of greed, lust, betrayal, and ruthless competition. Haunted by unscrupolous love of women and his demons, Otis spirals deeper into Kisumu's gritty underworld. In the end, only one question remains: will music save him, or destroy everything in its wake?
In this prequel to Bengaman, Otis Dinos the one-time benga music legend in Kenya, returns to Kisumu after a long exile in UK. The '80s gave him fortune, women, and power, but tragedy ended it all. Now, at forty-seven, with his bandmates dead and dreams shattered, he's left searching for sanity. The past haunts him, the present is empty and present offers nothing but emptiness and his future feels uncertain. As he grapples with his demons, a lost love still lingers in Kisumu, but Otis is too shattered to find solace.
BENGAMAN
WHEN YOU SING TO THE FISHES
Kassela, a savvy marketing professional is thrust into a perilous political world when millionaire Rapudo Oremo proposes marriage. Rapudo is a ruthless powerbroker, dealmaker and tenderpreneur who operates within the corrupt and dangerous Nairobi political landscape. Driven by ruthless ambition, he has to unseat his MP brother to expand and protect his empire. He has to marry. But Kassela, who is from Dandora, is accustomed to surviving in treacherous environment. She must strike a deal with Rapudo on her terms and master the dark, high-stakes games of Kenyan politics.
