Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
It's big news when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana - famous for saving hundreds of people from Rwandan genocide - accepts a position at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. Then a young girl is found murdered on his doorstep. For local police detective Ishmael, an African American in a white town, it seems like the kind of crime that happens in an area where the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies. But then he gets a mysterious phone call relaying that the truth is in Nairobi. The call starts a journey through the slums of Nairobi, where oil money rules.MUKOMA WA NGUGI is a novelist and poet whose works include Nairobi Heat and Throwing Words at Consciousness, a poetry collection. In 2009, he was a finalist for the Caine Award for African Writing, and in 2010, he was a finalist for the Penguin Prize for African Writing. He has appeared on Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, and the BBC World Service, and his essays have appeared in the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. His stories and poetry have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Kwani!, and other publications. Mukoma was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1971, and grew up in Kenya before returning to the United States to complete his undergraduate and graduate studies. He currently works as an English professor at Cornell University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781935554646 |
| ISBN 10 | 1935554646 |
| Title | Nairobi Heat |
| Author | Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Melville House Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
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