Meet the Omtitas

Meet the Omtitas
Author: Tony Adam Mochama
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013
Genre: Kenyan fiction (English)
ISBN: 9789966478368

Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow
Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher: East African Publishers
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2007
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9789966254917

Kwani?

Kwani?
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher: Kwani Archive Online
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789966983664

Following and keeping close to the great tradition set by its three predecessors, Kwani? 4 presents a wail of new voices in literary concert with the not so new. The now established talents- Binyavanga Wainaina, Muthoni Garland, Doreen Baingana- share these pages with the fast risers: Billy Kahora, Mukoma wa Ngugi and Shalini Gidoomal. And Kwani? 4 has delved deeper into the all those spaces where the Kenyan story lives: the street corners, the neighbourhood pubs, the in-between semi rural places where the clash of cultures- the traditional versus the modern- continues to redefine the social roles of the individual, dismantle patriarchal constructs and still retain the pithy wit and the devices of ancient orature that time and the ritual of the communal fireside have honed. Still, as though in ridicule of such notions of Africa as being the continent on the lee side of the Digital Divide, Kwani? 4 reaches into the burgeoning realms of the Kenyan blogosphere to bring such politically aware, borderline intellectual and only-two-degrees-shy-of-rebellious voices bringing a fresh look at the old themes of politics, slices of life and religion and placing them alongside such taboo subjects as sex beyond the hetero-normative ideal. Kwani? 4 is established in Africa as the space for cutting-edge new fiction, mind provoking non fiction and photo-essays and witty graphic narratives.

The Voice of the Night Masquerade

The Voice of the Night Masquerade
Author: Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1996
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

The author explains his poetic mission thus: 'it is the cultural tradition in my part of the world, that when abominations become unbearable, and the truth must be told with great courage, then the night masquerade appears...in order to set a senseless practice right; sometimes the night masquerade must confront the ruler and point out the nakedness of his utterances...this is the voice of the night masquerade, I am only the medium.' The ensuing collection of poems is divided into three sections: 'Night' - alluding to the night the mother of the spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan, weeping for her murdered son, in 'Things Fall Apart'; 'Night Vigil', and 'Night Passages'. This book was joint winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in 1997.

Language and Theme

Language and Theme
Author: Emmanuel N. Obiechina
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Omoluwabi 2.0

Omoluwabi 2.0
Author: Adéwálé Àjàdí
Publisher: December House
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 1909375039

In Omoluwabi 2.0, Adewale Ajadi lays out a new way of organising and transforming, organisations, countries and continents, based on the Yoruba principle of Omoluwabi, updated for the 21st century. There are not many original thinkers who dare to explore new territories with creative mental tools and attentiveness to details and still come up with a reader friendly book. Adewale Ajadis book comes with freshness. Omoluwabi 2.0 is long overdue and it should fill the knowledge gap created by an apparent lack of codification and wide dissemination of imo ijinle (deep knowledge) Kole Odutola: Lecturer at the University of Florida, Author of Diaspora and Imagined Nationality There have been ideas about two publics, the formal and informal worlds in Africa and their contradictory dynamics. Other have framed it as disorder but no one has pointed the way. As it was we were doomed to engineered solutions. Omoluwabi 2.0 comes with a torrent of meaning-making systems in a stream of post modern solutions to the challenges of the 21st century inspired by an abiding creativity in Africa's complexity and history. Sylvester Odio Akhaine, Member of the Guardian Editorial Board

I Swear by Apollo

I Swear by Apollo
Author: Margaret A. Ogola
Publisher: Focus Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The sequel to The River and the Source, which won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best First Book, Africa Region in 1995. In this novel, Ogola tells of the lives of AIDS' orphans Lisa, Johnny and Alicia, and how they are guided to adulthood by their aunt Wandia, an intellectual and independent woman. The author weaves her narrative around the aspirations of her characters and how they develop to find a place in Luo/Kenyan society. A place they seek at the dawn of the twenty-first century, when Kenya is emerging from decades of corruption and deterioration; and in an environment of contradiction and mixed messages, where values and attitudes are continuously being re- examined.

Feast, Famine and Potluck

Feast, Famine and Potluck
Author: Karen Jennings
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-06-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0620588861

A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.