Okay, so this novel was not at all like I expected (perhaps I should have read the flap more carefully) but it was still really good. It’s a surprisingly complicated and engaging story about a girl named Sade and her brother Femi who live in Nigeria but have to leave suddenly after their mother ...
Femi is in trouble. He's gotten involved with a gang of older boys and is telling so many lies to his family, he can hardly keep his head straight. His sister, Sade, knows something is going on, but she doesn't want to worry their father while he's waiting to hear if the family will be granted a...
That’s what his parents said as soon as the squatters took over the land below their house. Rohan’s dad added another meter of thick concrete bricks to their garden wall and topped it with curling barbed wire. He certainly wasn’t going to wait for the first break-in and be sorry later. They lived...
Men in red hats were chasing him and Baba. The two of them beat desperately on the door of a wooden house. Someone who looked like Karanja opened it, then shut it in their faces, shouting ‘Traitors!’. The men in red hats were about to grab them when Mugo opened his eyes. He was hunched up in the ...
Under the Night Sky Approaching the pozzie, they heard voices and the crackle of fire on the other side of the fence. Sipho was the last to squeeze between the broken planks. In the flickering light from the dancing flames, he immediately recognized the gang’s leader, Lucas. Vusi was there too, s...