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Nairobi noir / edited by Peter Kimani.

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Akashic Books, 2020.

Crime scenes -- Fiction.

Nairobi (Kenya) -- Fiction.

Kenya -- Fiction.

Akashic noir series.

244 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Introduction. Concrete jungle / Peter Kimani -- Part I: The hunters. She dug two graves / Winfred Kiunga -- Number Sita / Kevin Mwachiro -- Andaki / Kinyanjui Kombani -- A song from a forgotten place / Troy Onyango -- Mathree / Makena Onjerika -- Part II: The hunted. Blood sister / Peter Kimani -- Say you are not my son / Faith Oneya -- For our mothers / Wanjik wa Ngg -- Plot ten / Caroline Mose -- Have another roti / Rasna Warah -- Part III: The herders. Belonging / J.E. Sibi-Okumu -- The hermit in the helmet / Nggi wa Thiong'o -- Turn on the lights / Stanley Gazemba -- The night beat / Ngumi Kibera.

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 stories by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Stanley Gazemba, Ngumi Kibera, Peter Kimani, Winfred Kiunga, Kinyanjui Kombani, Caroline Mose, Kevin Mwachiro, Wanjiku wa Ngugi, Faith Oneya, Makena Onjerika, Troy Onyango, J. E. Sibi-Okumu, and Rasna Warah. From the introduction by Peter Kimani: Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation, rediscovering the city's ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration, reminding readers of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world, and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts, we can safely predict, will shine brightly in the years ahead. The oldest writer in this anthology is eighty-one, the youngest is only twenty-four; if there is any inference one can draw from this demographic it is that this anthology offers an entire spectrum of Kenyan writing: the past, present, and future. If we can allow one extravagant claim, a collection of this nature is unprecedented in Kenya's literary history. 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.

Kimani, Peter, 1971-

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