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  • Dog Meat Samosa

    by Stanley Gazemba ...
    A gritty collection of short stories exposing Nairobi's dark underbelly.Stanley Gazemba's Dog Meat Samosa delves into the lives of hustlers, criminals, and everyday people struggling to survive in Nairobi, Kenya. These stories paint a vivid picture of urban poverty, corruption, and social inequality.Experience the raw realities of a city teeming with life, where survival is a daily battle. This ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nairobi Noir

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Makena Onjerika, Rasna Warah, Stanley Gazemba, Kinyanjui Kombani ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    In this anthology, fourteen authors explore dark mysteries in the concrete jungle capital of Kenya, dealing with topics of race, religion, and corruption.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.Brand-new ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nairobi Echoes

    by Stanley Gazemba ...
    Nairobi is a modern East African city that is growing phenomenally, its real estate literally bursting at the seams with new residential, industrial and commercial settlements coming up every day. But it is also a crowded, overstretched city whose streets teem with young entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are either city-bred hustlers, eking out a living on the fringes of the city, or ambitious ... Read more

    $7.45 CAD

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    Dog Meat Samosa

    by Stanley Gazemba ...
    Narrated by Arthur Romeo ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a rambling traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with people striving to earn a living on its mean streets. While Nairobi has every appearance of a fast-growing, modern African city with the mushrooming skyscrapers and superhighways, the city possesses a dark underbelly. Dog Meat Samosa delves into the bowels of Nairobi’s crowded urban backstreets to paint a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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