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- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1995-2007
Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But as they come of...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they’re investigating. It’s the first big break for their new detective agency, Black Star, formed after they...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It must have been someone’s idea of a joke. Too many offended egos back at headquarters, too many influential people unhappy with him in Nairobi. And yet, with his record, almost impossible to dismiss. So where had they sent...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
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....
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Meet Mollel, a former Maasai warrior whose beloved wife died in the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. Mollel has been assigned to the investigation of the brutal murder of a local prostitute. Despite the resistance of his...
- Location(s): Nairobi, Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
In a compelling personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the...
One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Location(s): Kenya, Nairobi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother’s beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903 and 1953
A haunting, heartbreaking and unforgettable novel of a woman married to a man she can never love, and drawn to another who will capture her heart forever… When eighteen year old Iris Johnson is forced to choose between marrying...