Oba Kunta Octopus: 4 books

Nine year-old Karo is a troubled otherworldly girl. She is molested by an alcoholic father. Her mother puts up with it. Helpless, Karo endures ordeal after ordeal of rape and torture from a protector-turned-molester father. But on her 9th birthday, her grandma Cucu leads her through a ritual in which...

A 1980s Far Echo of African Music Noir. Kisumu. 1970s. Otis Dundos is a shy and awkward kid. He is just another wee-wee bare foot, horny-toed boy growing up with his dusty feet and bare chest having fun with dangerous adventures. In the ‘80s, then, as a man-boy he tries fit in. He is more...

Guitarist Otis Dundos is back in Kisumu, the addictive and possessive lakeside town. Back in the ‘80s, he was the Urban Benga guitar legend. His commercially potent mix of hard benga and lofty rumba was loud with a culture surrounding it, and a cult-like following. It ignited an entire generation...

Businesswoman’s Fault is a dense collection of seven new stories that are deeply thoughtful, and endlessly entertaining flights of imagination. These stories deal with a diversity of issues and show emerging challenges facing Africans today especially in their struggle to survive. The first...