num_pages: 223
description: Two brothers, both already well-known on the East African literary scene, have joined forces in this exciting collection of short stories. Both grew up as children in the stormy centre of Kenya's terrible Emergency which is the dominating theme of the book. For the first time the protagonists, whether freedom fighters or home guards, are acutely observed as real people - not puppets - with real emotions, hopes and fears, neither wholly good, nor wholly evil. With its dramatic revelations of the true morality of those searing days this book takes its place in the finest traditions of fiction writing from Africa.
language: English
title: Potent Ash
publisher: East African Publishing House