Psst!There was Njoroge at the open back door.What is it? I asked, from the dining table where I had been confined with strict orders from Mother not to move until I had finished my sums. My glass of sweetened milk and plate of biscuits and almonds were beside me.He beckoned briskly with one hand,...
The hanging had not been announced publicly, and young Omari and his brother, Abdelkarim, were among the handful, scattered across the road and partly hidden by the grass, who watched the proceedings. The brothers saw mighty Makunganya, his eyes covered by a white cloth, his demeanour as defiant ...
They brought to the place an air of gloom and depression such as it had not seen before. Soon afterwards Mrs Daya their neighbour reported to Mother: ‘They come with a secret to hide.’ Each morning Mrs Daya descended on the street from the second floor, and did her rounds of the stores, while wai...
The blast demolished the front end of the store and a portion of the residence above it, killing all the occupants, a family of three. In a picture that shocked the nation and provoked a presidential remark, the upper portion of a woman’s body was shown among the wreckage, the rest of her body pr...