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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 Thiong'o, 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 city's 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.
About the Author
Peter Kimani is a Kenyan author of, most recently, Dance of the Jakaranda, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He earned a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He is a founding faculty member at Aga Khan University's Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi. He was the Visiting Writer at Amherst College in the United States.
