num_pages: 256
description: Ngg wa Thiongo anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.Brand-new stories by: Ngg wa Thiongo Stanley Gazemba Ngumi Kibera Peter Kimani Winfred Kiunga Kinyanjui Kombani Caroline Mose Kevin Mwachiro Wanjik wa Ngg Faith Oneya Makena Onjerika Troy Onyango J.E. Sibi-Okumu and Rasna Warah.From the introduction by Peter Kimani:Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation rediscovering the citys ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration reminding readers of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts we can safely predict will shine brightly in the years ahead.The oldest writer in this anthology is eighty-one the youngest is only twenty-four; if there is any inference one can draw from this demographic it is that this anthology offers an entire spectrum of Kenyan writing: the past present and future. If we can allow one extravagant claim a collection of this nature is unprecedented in Kenyas literary history.Although the range of issues explored in Nairobi Noir is as diverse as its contributors it all gestures toward a common theme. In this concrete jungle the hunters and herders live on. As do the hunted . . .
language: English
title: Nairobi Noir
publisher: Akashic Books