Matata Books: 3 books
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Love After the Mau Mau
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Matata’ means trouble in Swahili, and falling in love across racial barriers is big matata, especially in Kenya, a segregated country seething with tensions after the Second World War. Lando, whisked out of Goa and back to Kenya, finds himself enrolled in a non-Catholic Asian school on the edge...
Among the Jacaranda -Buds of Matata in Kenya
THE MATATA TRILOGY, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Lando is born in British-ruled Kenya to parents from Goa as WW II breaks out in Europe. His family and community struggle to keep their Indo-Portuguese heritage alive in a Kenya dominated by the reality of racial segregation.
At age ten, he is sent to a Jesuit-run boarding school in Goa,...
Beyond The Cape
Sin, Saints. Slaves, and Settlers
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
As Lando, aged ten, emerges from the confessional booth, the reader is already embarked on an epic journey. The crossing of the first European around the Cape of South Africa in 1488 had significantly altered the course of history for part of Asia and much of Africa. The Author conveniently sets the...