Title: Riding on a Tiger Author: Moody Awori ISBN: 9789966349910 Publisher: Moran Publishers I was in Standard Three at Busia Airstrip Primary School when I first heard of Moody Awori. He had just joined the campaigns for political office in the 1983 snap elections. Moody, later to be known as Uncle Moody, won the elections
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight Author: Nuruddin Farah ISBN:9781594634109 Page count:342 Publisher: Penguin Books ‘’Their relationship …like a rug: beautiful when purchased but gone threadbare over timer.’’ Nuruddin Farah’s latest novel, Hiding in Plain Sight is primarily about family, freedom, and loyalty. While his previous novels have dealt with violence and poverty in
Here is a young Hausa boy who has found a place to call home at the mosque near the motor park, in Sokoto. Where else can he call home when his parents are dead, and his brothers have joined the Shiites? When the reader meets Dantala he has just finished studying under his Quranic teacher- Our twitter chat with Elnathan John Prestige Bookshop: Hello @elnathan_john. Thank you for joining us for this chat. We are going to talk about your novel, the trip to Kenya and much more Elnathan John: My pleasure. Glad to be doing this. PB: Thank you. Firstly, are you satisfied by the reception that Born
John Nene’s book Joe Kadenge: The Life of a Football Legend takes the reader back to the hay days of Kenyan football, the days of ‘Kadenge na mpira’. These were the times when passion oozed from the feet of the players and into the hearts of the fans. It mattered little that they played bare
A list of the most read books in Kenya in the year 2016.