Odiedo Stephen: 6 books

OSIRIS is the 16,000 line epic journey of the sacred Ankh on its heroic wanderings through the cosmos on a sacred quest for the one who would summon awake the cosmic Ka, the mystic soul of the great creative universe. Journeying from the creation of the world the sacred Ankh reaches the heart the...

For millennia Pharaoh Akhenaten (reigned from 1351BC to 1334 BC) has been the outcast per excellence among ancient Egypt's long line of rulers. In ancient Egypt, after his reign was over he was branded "Sebiu" - the accursed heretic, the benighted one who would never from then on - forever...

Afraha defies the headless Uhuru-Man's order banning the millennium celebrations as treason against the Kenyan state. Afraha's desperate, courageous stand to save Lawina her twin sister pits her against the headless Uhuru-Man's hunt down of the rebel child. Amidst the chaos Baron Samedi, the god...

IMANNA is an epic poem on the Rwanda Genocide written using the nine-line Spenserian Stanza. With the protean energies gifted me of the gracious Muse, "the Pearl richer than all his tribe", I have been working on IMANNA for a year now – ever since the Muse spoke my name and gifted...

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE is the story of **Toussaint L'Ouverture **the liberator of Haiti who led the African slaves in Haiti's liberation struggle and heroically defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and France and won the right to liberty and freedom. The play later dramatizes how, in the end, by treachery...

To the dead of the 2007-2008 Election Violence in Kenya. HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS FROM KENYA is a memorial, a monument of remembrance to them - Kenya's forgotten dead. Ten years later there is no acknowledgement of their deaths, their suffering, their loss. HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS FROM KENYA is a monument...