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09/12/2020

Today’s author Spotlight features Alice Gichuru ✨

Muthoni wa Gichuru is a Kenyan author. Muthoni’s first published novel, Breaking the Silence (2010), was the first runner-up for the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Literature Prize YA category. She is a multiple winner of the Burt Award for African Writing for YA literature, 2016 and 2018.

Muthoni is also a short story writer. She was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 and longlisted in 2018. In 2018 she was a finalist for the Africa Book Club Short Story Prize and in 2019, she was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri Literature Prize for the category of life-writing.

Muthoni wa Gichuru was shortlisted for the Miles Moorland Writing Scholarship in 2017 and 2018. Muthoni lives in Thika with her husband and three children.

Prior Work

Young Adult Literature

Breaking the silence
The Hidden Package
The Other Side and Other stories
The Bitter Sweet and Other Stories
The Scary Trip and Other Stories
Beyond the Barricades
The Carving
Children’s books

Smart Sidi and the Lost ball
Smart Sidi and the Poem
Smart Sidi and the Playhouse

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09/11/2020

Spirit of the Rainbow Dragon by Goro wa Kamau

Available now.

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09/09/2020

This is a story of Sandra Nakhumicha, a girl conceived out of r**e. But she never knew that. Sandra grew up convinced that her mother accidentally got pregnant, abandoned her, and ran off to the city. Sandra is left to care for her maternal grandmother who in turn, ensures Sandra is loved, provided for, and has access to education. To impress her grandmother, Sandra works hard. She stays at the top of her class and handles her duties at home.

Somehow, between all of her work, Sandra finds time for love. His name is Dau, and he is her hero. He tutors her and treats her to walks by the river. Their love is secretive and sweet.

Sandra gets accepted to the secondary school of her dreams. Granny sells everything to ensure she can attend. She stays at the top of her class, determined to seize this amazing opportunity. But everything changes when her beloved Granny is gruesomely killed by her biological father – the same man who r**ed her mother years before. Sandra is heartbroken, but her grandmother’s adopted brother Omari steps in to pull her out of the darkness. He reunites her with her mother and ensures her father is arrested and prosecuted.

Unfortunately, Sandra’s struggles continue – she is poisoned by a classmate and forced to fight for her life. Sandra’s mother steps up to save her, finally giving Sandra the opportunity to create a brighter future for herself and her family.

09/08/2020

A Journey Through Time by Newton Mudaki

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09/07/2020

Today’s Author Spotlight features Newton Mudaki

Newton Mudaki Kimiywi is a Kenyan, born in Vihiga County in Western Kenya. He majored in Biomedical Sciences from Maseno University and has a master of arts in international studies from The University of Nairobi. He is working with Beckman Coulter as the Regional Business Manager for East & West Africa. He was born and raised by a single mother alongside his four siblings. He works as a volunteer in some of the community projects running in the slums. Newton lives in Nairobi with his family.

Cheery Children & Education Center based in Kibra slums Nairobi Kenya, Maseno University, University of Nairobi, Danone Nutricia, Chartered Institute of Marketing and Harvard Business School Online Credentials of Readiness Program (CORe)

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09/05/2020

The Kigango Oracle is an adventure story set at sea along Kenya’s southern coast. It recounts the tale of Kanze, a young Digo girl with special powers. Kanze and her younger brother, Kombo, wake up one morning to find the Mijikenda cultural totem removed from their Grandfather Menza’s grave in the family cemetery!

The Mijikenda believe that once an erected Kigango is removed, misfortune and curses befall the descendants of the ancestor whose Kigango has been disturbed. Kanze, her brother, Kombo, and their friends Kibibi and Katana, set out to find Kanze and Kombo’s late Grandfather Menza’s Kigango, which has been stolen by village youths and sold to Clark, a European collector, who intends to smuggle it to Europe.

The spirit of Kanze’s grandfather, Menza, through a magical Kigango pendant he gives to Kanze in a nightly visitation, helps her to retrieve the Kigango as well as other Vigango in the village.

Grandfather Menza was a revered seer and Gohu, a spiritual leader in the Mijikenda community, and belonged to the secret Gohu society, a secret society of the Blessed, to which only the most revered of medicine men and seers renowned for divinations, healings, and prophecies belong.

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09/04/2020

Ward Nine is a story of wealth, power, and self-made immortality of characters intertwined in religious extremism, science, black magic, and the twisted cultural beliefs of people across Africa and beyond.

It is an exposure of social class divisions, the struggles on the ladder, and the rise and fall of pseudo empires that exist beyond the eyes of the public.

It is where purported good meets the notion of evil. The mission: to unveil the darkest secrets of the land by way of satire, humor, and fantasy.

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09/03/2020

Let’s Talk About This by Moraa Gitaa.

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09/02/2020

A Journey Through Time By Newton Mudaki

Baraka, a young boy born in the western region of Kenya, is brought up by Jane Uside, a resilient single parent. He goes through the tough, unforgiving terrain of life, as his uncle Matata brings him untold miseries. The Winds of fate throw him onto the streets of Nairobi, and all seems lost with everything stacked against him—appalling poverty and gross indignity—yet he emerges from the trenches to become a globally renowned research scientist, discovering cocktails that change how cancer is treated and managed.

Still, his identity troubles him to the core. His life has been a journey through time. Will he be able to solve the biggest puzzle of his life?

It’s a coming of age story; the major and minor themes in the story are timeless, relevant today as they have been over the years and in the years to come.

A Journey Through Time focuses on themes of home and identity, the freedom of choice, the power of a rebirth, poverty, and reconciliation. The author uses first-person narration, which lends the story authenticity and credibility, immersing the reader deep into the story and transporting them to the different worlds of Baraka the protagonist. The narration is deeply engaging.

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09/01/2020

Let’s Talk About This by Moraa Gitaa

Let’s Talk About This begins the morning after two young girls from two different cultural backgrounds, who have both suffered the trauma of r**e and sexual assault, meet at the exclusive Angels of Mercy Girl’s Crisis Centre in Nairobi.

Let’s Talk About This handles the issue of r**e and sexual assault with sensitivity and comprises an engrossing read for young adults.

Let’s Talk About This is an engaging YA novella set in Kenya that recounts an end-of-the-year school party gone wrong. The book also focuses on forced child marriages and highlights how the r**e and sexual assault of minors are often treated in a trivial manner.

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08/31/2020

Today’s author Spotlight features Erick Ngoda ☀️

Erick Livumbazi Ngoda is an award-winning author of young adult literature. Born in Mbale, Vihiga County Kenya in 1975 and published his first book at the age of twenty-four. Having encountered unknown cultures and worlds through different books in his childhood, he always tries to give young adults and children from other cultures and worlds a glimpse into his own world. And other unknown worlds. Many of his books are part of the curriculum in Kenya’s schools.

Prior work includes ‘A name for himself’, the winner of The William Burt Award for African Literature 2013; its sequel, ‘The wind beneath his wings’, ‘Making the team’ winner of the inaugural Worldreader Anasoma Award 2017; ‘Tracking the Leopard Fur smugglers’; ‘A burst of birdsong’; ‘The lost herdsboy’; ‘Living with Melisa’; ‘Begwani the beggar’; and ‘Joyride’.

Erick Livumbazi Ngoda has written for Kenyan newspapers and magazines for many years, including ‘The daily nation’ and ‘The star’. He holds a degree in Library and Information from Inoorero University. He currently lives in Bungoma Town, Kenya where he works as a full-time writer and editor.

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