Download or read book Rafiki Man Guitar written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him. However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town's poorest residents, many of whom have changed their residences, their names and identities and gone underground. Others will not part with the goods they got on credit, and will defend them with their lives. Moreover, Rafiki's friends, and relatives are on the list, and so is the Chief, and he has the power to arrest and detain Rafiki without trial.
Download or read book Rafiki Man Guitar written by Meja Mwangi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him. However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town's poorest residents, many of whom have changed their residences, their names and identities and gone underground. Others will not part with the goods they got on credit, and will defend them with their lives. Moreover, Rafiki's friends, and relatives are on the list, and so is the Chief, and he has the power to arrest and detain Rafiki without trial.
Download or read book The Cockroach Dance written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusman Gonzaga lives in an old apartment building overrun by cockroaches and squalor. The building, Dacca House, is owned by Tumbo Kubwa, a mindless slum lord, and occupied by a strange mix of characters; from garbage collectors to hawkers, from con men to witch doctors from genii to mad men. In this crazy world of wild adventures and appalling poverty, Dusman tries to organize the tenants to boycott paying rent in a desperate move to force the landlord to listen to their woes.
Download or read book The Sinister Trophy written by John Kiriamiti and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the author of the popular Son of Fate, this follow-up story tells of Adams Wamathina, better known as Son of Fate, who is searching for a trophy which other parties will stop at nothing to get. The action takes place in Nairobi and Tanzania and Son of Fate finds himself involved with car chases and murder as he becomes embroiled in the chase.
Download or read book Son of Fate written by John Kiriamiti and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is by the author of the celebrated My Life in Crime and is his first. The life of the 'Son of Fate' is a grim struggle for survival, after his release from prison. He tries his luck at farming, and odd jobs in the city, but everything fails, and he finds himself on the wrong side of the law again. But a glimmer of hope comes when he rescues a tycoon.
Download or read book Crossroads written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baba Pesa written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutish Baba Pesa, 'The Father of Money', owns 300 acres of prime farm land, yet he covets the meager plot of his poverty-stricken neighbor, Baru, who barely scratches out an existence. But Baba Pesa is up against his son, Juda, a drunk, who has declared war on his father's greed and taken to lecturing his fellow villagers on the greater values in life
Download or read book My Life in Crime written by John Kiriamiti and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1989-07-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1690 and early 70s may be remembered as the years of the great bank and other armed robberies in Kenya. This is the true story of one of the participants in some of those robberies, John Kiriamiti. In raw and candid language, Kiriamiti tells the story of how he dropped out of secondary school when he was only fifteen years old, and for a time became a novice pickpocket, before graduating into crimes like car-breaking and ultimately into violent robbery. This spell-binding story takes the reader into the underworld of crime, and it depicts graphically the criminals struggle for survival against the forces of law. John Kiriamiti was imprisoned on 6 January 1971, after being convicted on a charge of committing robbery at Naivasha on 4 November 1970. Kiriamiti left Naivasha Maximum Security Prison in August 1984, just five months after the publication of this novel and those following which were a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and '90s.
Download or read book My Life with a Criminal Milly s Story written by John Kiriamiti and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1989-06-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kiriamiti's best-selling novel My Life in Crime has become a classic. Here Milly, his girlfriend, tells the poignant story of her life with the bank robber. They were in love, and he was gentle, kind and considerate. But after she moved in with him, she discovered his double life. She remained devoted, but the stress of his life bore its toll, and finally they parted. This sequel novel is also a bestseller in Kenya.
Download or read book The Dead Came Calling written by Nducu wa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Indian businessman, Vishal Mehta, is found murdered inside his garage in Tigoni, Limuru, Jack Chidi, an investigative reporter with The Daily Grind is called in to investigate. Jack has no idea why Mehtas wife, Anarupa Mehta, has decided to call him. She informs him that it was Mehta, who had asked her to call him should anything happen to him, a few weeks before his death, signalling that he knew his life was in danger. Who would want him dead? And why? The only way to get to the bottom of this is to dig deep into Mehtas business dealings and the secrecy surrounding the Mehtas. It is a murder case that will take him all the way to Texas, USA, and back in search of the killer or killers. In the process, he exposes major international sex-trafficking ring, prostitution and corruption here and abroad. Jack is determined to find out who killed Mehta, a quest that puts his life in danger. Can he solve the case before they get him?
Download or read book Going Down River Road written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2016-03-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben is a man on the move - in bars, in night clubs and in seedy pubs down Nairobi's River Road, where he meets Wini, a single mother trying to make it in the big city. They live together as man and wife until Wini escapes abroad with her employer leaving him the burden of bringing up her baby son. When Ben joins up with Ocholla, his bar-crawling, construction-site friend, life goes from strange to bizarre. Mwangi's treatment of the serious situation makes and unforgettable impact. MEJA MWANGI, the acclaimed author of "Going Down River Road," "The Cockroach Dance" and "Kill Me Quick," is an eclectic writer whose fascination with stories has created such varied works as "Bush Doctor," "Crossroads," "Carcase for Hounds," "Rafiki" and "Christmas Without Tusker" among others.
Download or read book Kill Me Quick written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meja and Maina arrive in the city confident their high school diplomas will lead to employment and success. However, they are unable to find jobs and they end up in the backstreets, withe the homeless poor. Brutally separated, they meet years later behind prison bars. This novel displays Mwangi's talent for writing lively stories depicting societal problems in Kenya.
Download or read book Song of Spider Man written by Glen Berger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapping readers in its web, this insider's account of the most expensive, dangerous and controversial Broadway musical of all time reveals every aspect of the production, providing a glimpse into how the theatrical process works and how big musicals are made.
Download or read book Bold Words written by Rajini Srikanth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Some sixty authors of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American origin are represented, with an equal split between male and female writers. The collection is divided into four sections-memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama-prefaced by an introductory essay from a well-known practitioner of that genre: Meena Alexander on memoir, Gary Pak on fiction, Eileen Tabios on poetry, and Roberta Uno on drama. The selections depict the complex realities and wide range of experiences of Asians in the United States. They illuminate the writers' creative responses to issues as diverse as resistance, aesthetics, biculturalism, sexuality, gender relations, racism, war, diaspora, and family.
Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy Gift written by Meja Mwangi and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toma Tomei had nine daughters, but wants a son so that he can become Chief Councillor and leader of his peoples. His political rival Old Jonah opposes his ambition, and consults a witchdoctor to try and ensure Toma will never beget a son. When Toma's wife gives birth to a baby boy however, it seems his plotting has failed. But then, the boys' looks suggest Toma may not be the father after all...
