By Khalifa Hemed
Published January 2, 2025
If you enjoy diversity, literary innovation, affordable price and easy access to eclectic authors, then you don’t delay in buying and reading literature by some of Kenya’s finest and most innovative writers.
Fadhili Ogova’s Gifted; David Maillu’s Kadosa 1: Knocking at Heart, My Dear Bottle, and Push Gen Z Push Harder; and Ogova Ondego’s From Terror to Hope, How to Write on 1001 Subjects!, Stories from Life, and The Braggart’s Day of Reckoning! are somwe of the books you could begin your 2025 with.
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But what are these books about?
- How to Write on 1001 Subjects! is a how-to manual that guides any one and everyone how to think logically, coherently and to write clearly and crisply using concise language on just about any subject under human experience;
- Gifted by Fadhili Ogova is a Fantasy Adventure novel on children with mysterious powers that the world neither understands nor wants to tap;
- Kadosa 1: Knocking at Heart is a heartbreaking novel of a mysterious fictional woman with clothes like the skin of a chameleon;
- From Terror to Hope is a historical, action-packed fictional adventure based on the saying, ‘No one shows God to a child’;
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- Push Gen-Z, Push Harder is a novel that revolves around the socio-political protests by Kenya’s younger generation against overtaxation, misgovernance, corruption and impunity that rocked the East African country in June 2024. There possibly cannot be a better way of presenting this Gen-Z revolutionary movement in Kenya than how it has been delivered in this novel. Though the narrative is highly politically charged, the work retains a remarkable literary approach to the struggle for expanded democratic possibilities in the country of 50 million people;
- Stories from Life is an anthology of prose, poetry and drama based on the premise that history is written not to justify anything but to inform, educate and caution;
- My Dear Bottle is a sharp social criticism delivered in random reflections, “songs” and lamentations by a frustrated city dweller who seeks solace in drinking in the newly socially deformed independent Kenya;
- The Braggart’s Day of Reckoning! is a coming of age adventure story revolving around a boy who must trudge deeper into a dark forest despite the dangers lurking behind the sky-clutching trees and octopus-like creepers and man-eating plants in search of a cure for his ailing younger sister;
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- The Braggart’s Day of Reckoning is a coming of age adventure story revolving around a 12-year old boy who must trudge deeper into a dark forest despite the dangers lurking behind the sky-clutching trees and octopus-like creepers and man-eating plants in search of a cure for his ailing younger sister;
- Gifted is a Fantasy Adventure novel on gifted children with mysterious powers that the world neither understands or wants to tap; and
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All these publications by ComMattersKenya are available for purchase from online bookshops like Apple Books, OverDrive, Barnes & Noble, Rakuten Kobo, Vivlio, Tolino, BorrowBox and Baker & Taylor.
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