Meja and Maina arrive in the city confident their high school diplomas will lead to employment and success. However, they are unable to find jobs and they end up in the backstreets, withe the homeless poor. Brutally separated, they meet years later behind prison bars. This novel displays Mwangi's talent for writing lively stories depicting societal problems in Kenya.

Kill me quick (African writers series, 143)

Literature & Fiction

Mwangi, Meja

World Literature

Heinemann Educational

Carcase for Hounds is a novel by Kenyan writer Meja Mwangi first published in 1974. The novel concerns the Mau Mau liberation struggle during the latter days of British colonial rule and attempts, by the actions of the main protagonists, to show how Mau Mau was organized and why it took so long for the colonial government to defeat them.

Carcase for Hounds

Heinemann

Ben, cashiered as a lieutenant in the army, now works as a building labourer in Nairobi. By the author of "Kill Me Quick" and "Striving for the Wind".

Going Down River Road (African Writers)

Set in Kenya, this portrayal of post-colonial decadence features the newly wealthy black landowner, Baba Pesa, who clashes with his family, friends and neighbours as he attempts to gain financial dominance of his region.

Striving for the Wind (African Writers Series)

British & Irish

Dusman Gonzaga and his neighbors in Dacca House, a tenement building in an African city, cope with cockroaches, the rental agent, and the constant search for enough money to keep going

The Cockroach Dance (Longman African Classics Series)

Contemporary

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

The story of one man's resistance to a system and society run by "faceless ones". Dusman Gonzaga lives in a squalid tenement building overrun with cockroaches and inhabited by strange characters. His is a world of poverty, fights, bar women and visits to a doctor who doesn't understand him.

Cockroach Dance

Longman Publishing Group

The Mzungu Boy

For Kariuki, life in a small village in Kenya is one great adventure. The best part of his day is the walk home from school, when he is free from both his bullying headmaster and his mother's long list of chores. The landscape around his village is beautifully wild, and Kariuki knows it well. One day Kariuki meets Nigel, a boy from England who has come to visit his grandfather, the fearsome Bwana Ruin, who owns the farm where the villagers work. The villagers call Nigel the mzungu boy (westerner), and view him with suspicion and fear; but not Kariuki. One day the boys decide to hunt down the meanest warthog in the forest. The hunt takes them deeper into the jungle than Kariuki has ever gone, and all at once his beloved forest becomes a frightening place. Dangerous creatures live in the jungle, including the mau-mau, the men with guns who are plotting against Bwana Ruin and the white soldiers. And when Nigel suddenly disappears, will Kariuki be able to save his friend? In this novel, the author captures a time of innocence, wild beauty, and the growing violence that eventually changed the entire structure of colonial Africa.

Children's Books

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For Kariuki, life in a small village in Kenya is one great adventure. The best part of his day is the walk home from school, when he is free from both his bullying headmaster and his mother’s long list of chores. The landscape around his village is beautifully wild, and Kariuki knows it well. One day Kariuki meets Nigel, a boy from England who has come to visit his grandfather, the fearsome Bwana Ruin, who owns the farm where the villagers work. The villagers call Nigel the mzungu boy (westerner), and view him with suspicion and fear, but not Kariuki. One day the boys decide to hunt down the meanest warthog in the forest. The hunt takes them deeper into the jungle than Kariuki has ever gone, and all at once his beloved forest becomes a frightening place. Dangerous creatures live in the jungle, including the mau-mau, the men with guns who are plotting against Bwana Ruin and the white soldiers. And when Nigel suddenly disappears, will Kariuki be able to save his friend? In this novel, the author captures a time of innocence, wild beauty, and the growing violence that eventually changed the entire structure of colonial Africa.

Dieser Roman aus dem Milieu der Armen und Gestrandeten Nairobis ist nicht nur ein Buch über die Lebenswirklichkeit in einer afrikanischen Großstadt. Er ist gleichzeitig ein Roman über das Leben in den unaufhaltsam wuchernden Städten der Dritten Welt überhaupt mit ihren endlosen Slums, dem Elend ihrer Bewohner und dem Scheitern ihrer Hoffnungen auf ein besseres Leben und ihrer Beziehungen zueinander durch eine unmensch¬liche Umwelt, in der der Weiße, ob als Tourist oder als Geschäfts¬mann, immer noch die Macht innehat.Ben, Wini und Ochola gehören zu den Millionen von Afri¬kanern, die durch die Zerstörung der alten afrikanischen Tradi¬tionen jeglichen Halt verloren haben. Und obwohl Mwangi vor dieser Situation seine Bitterkeit und seinen Sarkasmus kaum unterdrücken kann, enthält dieses Buch auch viele Beispiele praktischer, kaum wahrnehmbarer und dennoch wichtiger Solida¬rität, die die einzige Hoffnung der Betrogenen und Vergessenen ist.

Nairobi, River Road (German Edition)

Imfeld, Al

Hm Books

Ben is a man on the move – in bars, in night clubs and in seedy pubs down Nairobi’s River Road. On one of these occasions he meets Wini, a single mother trying to make it in the big city. They live hard, as man and wife, for a while, surviving at the very edge of squalor, until Wini escapes abroad with her boss leaving her baby son with Ben. When Ben joins up with Ocholla, his bar-crawling, construction-site friend, life goes from strange to bizarre. Mwangi’s treatment of the serious situation makes and unforgettable impact. MEJA MWANGI, the acclaimed author of “Going Down River Road”, "The Cockroach Dance" and “Kill Me Quick”, is an eclectic writer whose fascination with stories has created such varied works as “Bush Doctor”, “Crossroads”, “Carcase for Hounds”, “Rafiki” and “Christmas Without Tusker” among others.

Down River Road

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Kill me quick (African writers series, 143)

Carcase for Hounds

Going Down River Road (African Writers)

Striving for the Wind (African Writers Series)

The Cockroach Dance (Longman African Classics Series)

Cockroach Dance

The Mzungu Boy

The Mzungu Boy

Nairobi, River Road (German Edition)

Down River Road