Mukoma Wa Ngugi is author of Black Star Nairobi (Melville, 2013), Nairobi Heat (Penguin, 2009; Melville 2011), and an anthology of poetry titled Hurling Words at Consciousness (AWP, 2006). He was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009 and the Penguin Prize for African Writing in 2010. He is currently based in Norwalk, CT. (http://www.mukomawangugi.com/) This piece is an excerpt from a manuscript that became the book Mrs. Shaw, published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press in 2015.
Fiction
Summer 2009
Abiku: Return from Exile
The morning following his return to Kwatee Republic, Kalumba was awakened by the sound of pots and pans. He dressed and stepped outside, barefoot, into the small lawn, so manicured […]