East African Educ. Publ.

A complex social web forms the backdrop to this novel - the story of a man and two wives, one legally married to him, the other not. There is mounting pressure from a prying society with its norms on...

Wangu wa Makeri was born in the second half of the nineteenth century into traditional Gikuyu society. She underwent customary rites and married. In 1901, she was appointed the 'headman' of Weithaga...

A young physical therapist living in the cold and bleak of northern Canada longs for a new life, and so she goes to work in South Africa. The novel centres around the new life Jayne finds. At first...