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Print: $16.95 The Big Chiefs have plunged the country into political and economic mayhem to serve their own interests. Rumour has it that another genocide is imminent. The Old Man has seen it all before and tells his cautionary tale of misplaced trust in leadership to whoever cares to listen. Will history repeat itself? Is there no end to the power of the Big Chiefs?
In this apocalyptic novel, Meja Mwangi, spins a moral tale of courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and tells a story that is full of love and compassion, and one that is as heart-warming as it is disturbing.
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Print: $13.50 A gunrunner puts together a crew to track down a fortune in gold in Africa but unwittingly becomes a pawn in the political strife of war-torn Arrakan.
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Print: $25.95 Kimberley, an American scientist specialised in termites, has established a research station in the African bush. Although she does not want any children, she is about to have a baby. Her husband, driving her to a Nairobi hospital, loses his way and she gives birth in a bush hospital. The next morning, in their car and far away from the hospital, they realise that the baby does not look like either of them. Is this the result of the curse of the nomad woman who asked Kimberley for help and was turned away?
Meja Mwangi tells with a lot of humour how the customs officer and his wife strike a friendship with the American couple and how the mystery is finally resolved.
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Print: $17.44 Toma Tomei wants to become chief of his clan. But the father of nine daughters has a chance to achieve his aim only if he has a son. So he has great hopes when his wife gives birth to their tenth child. The next morning he is shown his baby. The baby is a boy, but ...
With a lot of humour, the author tells us how the community reacts to this strange baby, and how Tomei seeks the advice of a medicine man, who is not entirely loyal to him.
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Print: $13.50 Two country boys arrive in the big city dreaming of big jobs and prosperity. Contrary to expectations, the big city is neither as welcoming nor as generous as the boys have been led to believe. The streets are crowded and paved with indifference and crime. Violence has left city people unfriendly and suspicious, and the policemen hate to see unemployed young people loitering on the streets. Failing to find any kind of work, despite their good education, the boys invade the backstreets and attempt to survive among the strays and the homeless. They eat from the rubbish bins and sleep in the rubbish bins. Brutally separated by a freak accident, they succumb to desperation only to meet years later behind prison bars.
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Print: $11.49 The play begins with the arrival of a white couple at a remote and crumbling border crossing in the African bush. When they try to pass a day-old, black baby as theirs, the border guard smells a crime. He becomes more suspicious when they fail to pinpoint the location of the Bush Hospital, where they claim their baby was born, or produce documents to support their story. While they wait for the police to investigate, the border guard extends traditional hospitality to the travellers and he and Ruben, the white man claiming to be the natural father of a black baby, forge a friendship bordering on brotherhood – well, almost.
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POWERPOWER (book)
Print: $11.50 After a successful career as a big man, the Old Man breaks ranks with the Big Chiefs and is banished to live in poverty in the Pit. In a bitter recollection he reveals to the Boy how the Big Chiefs set their subjects against one another in order to weaken and control them. Now, like the Old Man who made it to the top, romanced with power and came tumbling down into the Pit, the Boy and his generation are after the power that the Big Chiefs deem as theirs and theirs alone. In this adaptation of Meja Mwangi’s apocalyptic novel, The Big Chiefs, the author has written a play that is just as inspiring.
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Print: $11.95 When a cold storm destroys Argwings’ town, everyone blames it on the two strangers residing with the orphan boy in his abandoned house. Since their first appearance, the sun has disappeared, animals have died and their tree houses have begun to decay. Everything is sad and gloomy and it seems that they will all die unless something is done about it. Then, as they prepare to mount a raid and drive the strangers out of Argwings’ house, a very peculiar thing happens.
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Print: $14.50 Tyrannical landowner, Baba Pesa, owns all the prime farmland around, yet he covets the meagre plots of his poverty-stricken neighbours who barely scratch out an existence. But, not content to be the wealthiest man in the land, the self-titled Father of Money sets out to bully them into selling and moving. Sadly for him, he is up against his son, Juda, a college dropout and self-proclaimed philosopher who has elected himself a champion of the people and taken to lecturing his fellow villagers on the greater values in life.
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Print: $19.95 Crossroads is on the verge of extinction by Aids. The disease has wiped out nearly all the able-bodied inhabitants, leaving behind helpless orphans and desperate old people. There seems to be no hope for survival. The only hope lies in Janet, the lone community health worker. Janet has made it her mission to speak out against the plague that is eating them all up.
Crossroads explores the conflicts between old and new; between traditional and modern; between religion and superstition. More importantly, it is about the conflict between man and woman, an issue that is crucial to the success and failure of the war on Aids. With alacrity and humour, the book narrates the story of a compassionate woman, a lone voice in a vast wilderness, confronting immense odds in her determination to speak out and save her community from itself.
Crossroads takes a critical look at a desperate people confronting their worst crisis.
Winner: National Book Week Award and Jomo Kenyatta Award
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