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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...
- Location(s): Nairobi, East Africa, Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 1980s to mid 1990s
At the age of thirty an aspiring, ambitious fashion designer left her design workshop in Edinburgh with her sewing machine to embark on the journey of a lifetime to become the principal of the ‘number one’ fashion college in...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Various
Nairobi Noir brings together some of Kenya’s most exciting and acclaimed writers, in this celebration of noir writing, played out on the streets of Nairobi. “Although the range of issues explored in Nairobi Noir is as diverse as its...
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...
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