Her managers treated her like she was an idiot and invisible. They expected her to ignore the unapologetic racial stereotyping and being passed over for promotion. They expected her to accept the coordinated and relentless persecution - perhaps they thought she was too ordinary, too weak to fight for justice. But they were wrong! She had a voice and an indomitable spirit.Almost British - Revisited reveals the negative and devastating effects of harassment, bullying and vic...

The novel is about the human condition, healing, love, and forgiveness. It is about a woman who has been traumatized by the tragedy of the bombing, her husbands attempt to heal and rescue her, and a young man coming to terms with the death of one of his friends in the same tragedy.

Ever wonder if your most challenging times were also your most alive?That's the question that haunts me as I revisit these essays about my street life as a prostitute. It was a chaotic mix of freedom, vulnerability, a million emotions swirling at once. Hated it, loved it – a constant push and pull. But maybe that's life, isn't it?A rollercoaster of love and hate, faith and doubt, even for those who seem to have it all figured out on the outside.In these essays, you'...

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key th...

This extensive study of gender and trade in Nairobi is "a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended" ( Choice).Herskovitz Award–winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides a case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and ...

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 contributors, it all gestures toward a common theme. In this concrete jungle, the hunters and herders live on. As do the hunted..."- Peter Kimani, introduction Featuring brand new stories from: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Stanley Gazemba, Ngumi Kibera, Peter Kimani, Win...

A Virgilian guide leads the reader through postcolonial neighborhoods and slums of Nairobi, where skyscrapers and savannah coexist with traffic. Environmental protection defies the limits of survival, as it also happens to the city's inhabitants: waste recycling projects coincide with the recovery of the human condition of the waste pickers themselves, a recovery of dignity comparable to the attempt to restore a healthy ferinity to the now urbanized animals.Through a journey through...

Nairobi, 2077. A city shimmering with technological advancement, where skyscrapers pierce the sapphire sky and innovation pulsates through every fiber of its being. Yet, beneath this dazzling veneer of progress, a chilling metamorphosis unfolds, threatening to unravel the very fabric of humanity. Dr. Kamau, a celebrated geneticist, witnesses his groundbreaking therapy for inherited diseases twist into a terrifying nightmare as his patients succumb to grotesque mutations, their bodies conto...

The book describes the love life of young man and woman in Nairobi

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa.This creativ...

Edited by G.K. Helleiner, this volume contains the proceedings of a symposium jointly sponsored by the Association of African Central Banks and the IMF that was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 1985.

‘Nairobi enchants, like the eyes of a loved one, like their smile, like their kisses, like their caresses, like their very thought.’ Thursdays in Nairobi is a personal account of an expat’s life in Nairobi, related through a unique collection of vignettes about Kenya´s capital city. Written by Mexican journalist, foreign correspondent and former diplomat Diego Gómez Pickering, and translated from the original Spanish by Aaron Rosenberg, this unique travel narrative offers testimonies about...