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"In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gik?y? girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called Wanjik?. On the busy city streets of Nairobi, where she goes to school, she is called by her English name, Catherine. But at home with Wangar?, the maid who cooks and cares for her, she is again Wanjik?. All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class, surrounded by friends from different cultural backgrounds. But at night, when she gathers with her fellow Gik?y? sisters to speak her mother tongue, she is Wanjik? once more"--Provided by publisher.

"12-year-old Mwikali is moving to a new school in Nairobi and just wants her life to be normal. But when she meets Soni, Odwar and Xirsi who reveal that she is descended from an ancient bloodline of legendary Kenyan warriors, all hope of a normal life fades. Now, with an array of malign forces massing, Mwikali must delve deep into the past to discover her ancestry, learn to harness her extraordinary powers, and enter a race against time to defeat a village elder who has turned to dark magic in an effort to gain ultimate power"--Amazon.

A glamorous American multimillionairess, Alice de Janze left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover, and went through a failed murder-suicide. She then left Paris and went to Kenya's Happy Valley in Africa (where many prominent English lived) and became the lover of womanizer Joseph Errol. In 1941, Errol was shot in his car on an isloated road. The crime remains unsolved. What really happened on that fateful evening in an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence is the subject of this book.

An account of the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, discussing the motives behind the bombings, events surrounding these acts of terror, and the trial of the men involved.