The Stone Hills of Maragoli
"Life as a labourer is hard, but when Ombima, commits what he considers a "necessary" crime and watches the events that unfold, things change. He tries to cover up his deeds, which come to involve the...
View ArticleTo See The Mountain And Other Stories
The Caine Prize for African Writing is named in celebration of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, who was Chairman of the 'Africa 95' arts festival in Europe and Africa in 1995...
View ArticleOne Day I will Write About This Place
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...
View ArticleHiding in Plain Sight
"Absorbing and provocative [Farah's] characters are given heft through personal histories and anecdotes, and he writes evocatively about everything from Nairobi traffic to Kenyan game reserves to,...
View ArticleTaty Went West
'A hallucinogenic post-apocalyptic carnival ride - Nikhil Singh has a strange and intriguing mind.' Lauren Beukes, author of Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Zoo City 'Nikhil Singh writes a prose as lush...
View ArticleBoy, Interrupted
"A searing, heartbreaking love story set in the civil war years in Liberia. Told in a direct, idiomatic style, the story takes us from the narrator's difficult childhood years in Monrovia to a meeting...
View ArticleStay with Me
'Scorching, gripping, ultimately lovely.' Margaret Atwood 'A compulsive read Just brilliant. Adebayo is an astounding storyteller - an exciting addition to the emerging voices in African writing.'...
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