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Nairobi Heat

Nairobi Heat

Author(s): Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Location(s): Nairobi

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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It’s big news when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana – famous for saving hundreds of people from Rwandan genocide – accepts a position at the University in Madison, Wisconsin. Then a young girl is found murdered on his doorstep. For local police detective Ishmael – an African American in a white town, it seems like the kind of crime that happens in an area where the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies. But then he gets a mysterious phone call relaying that the truth is in Nairobi. The call starts a journey through the slums of Nairobi, where oil money rules.

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A very ‘current’ novel set in Nairobi. Brilliant to take with you if you are heading out that way! – 5*Book Reviews –

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