Bahati Books: 10 books

What does Black History really mean? Is Black History Month relevant only if you are residing in the West, or does Black History bear a meaningful relevance to people based in Africa? It is well known that people of African origin have heavily contributed to literature and the arts – throughout...

Nairobi is a modern East African city that is growing phenomenally, its real estate literally bursting at the seams with new residential, industrial and commercial settlements coming up every day. But it is also a crowded, overstretched city whose streets teem with young entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs...

A man and woman begin an intense romance and find their lives unexpectedly linked to the rise and fall of their disintegrating nation, propelling them fight against fate to hold onto each other.  From the moment she is born, a woman is taught who to be; as she hits a low point in her life, she...

Regardless of our race, ethnic origin, religion, social status or net worth, we all experience similar things at some point during the course of our lives. Whilst a person on one end of the world may be feeling happy about landing a new job, another person, on the other end of the world is feeling...

The Nigerian boy is not your typical boy. He has been taught not to cry, not to laugh too much, and to hide his feelings behind the drapes of Masculinity. He has been taught to steel himself against women and to work hard (or else no woman will like him). He’s also been taught to be inadequate....

“The Words of my Mother” is a multi-layered poetry collection which unearths a world which remains buried in our modern-day era, which is dominated by television, laptops, smartphones and social media. “The Words of my Mother” digs deeper beyond this – it reveals a world of nature and child-like...

Four men from different corners of Nigerian society find their fates tied to one man: Yinka. Drawn by desperation to leave Nigeria, the men are drawn to Yinka - a self-styled consultant who acts as the front man for a powerful human trafficking syndicate. The men come from distinct corners of Nigeria’s...

The four movements of this collection of poems are part of a map of the journey Katlego K Kol-Kes has taken through her life as a writer and transgender identifying person in Southern Africa. These are the movements of someone who had never had the space, time, or language to share the innermost thoughts...

In this debut short story collection, readers follow the lives of an array of characters – from three distinct corners of Zimbabwean society. The collection begins with the political elite: we enter the inner sanctum of the country’s Minister of Mine’s hotel room, where he brokers back-door...

In one winter night, I shivered painfully and wished for warmth. I wish my Mother had warm blankets to offer me then. In one rainy day without an umbrella, I wished for a rainbow to carry me towards the end of the world, where sun rays seemingly gathered for me. I love shooting stars; they allow me...