Raleigh, North Carolina. Regal House. 2019. 206 pages.
In this masterful collection of short stories, characters from urban Nairobi and rural villages burst into life in bold, expressionistic strokes,…
Stanley Gazemba
I bought Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy on a visit to her Somaliland hometown, Hargeisa. When I visited, Hargeisa was a dreary city—at least that was my first impression—until I got to kno…
New York. The Mantle. 2017. 280 pages. Winner of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, this deceptively simple and straightforward novel of day-to-day life in the small village of Ivona in western K…
