Heart of Darkness meets Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow in this exhilarating historical fantasy debut about what happens when the forces of progress slam against the forces of nature, and the unseen hand that moves us decides the fate of a cursed East African railroad.February 1898. The sanguine Lt. Col. Patterson sails to Mombasa with a mission straight from London: to build a rai...

A silent prayer of retribution is answered as one woman, as strong and singular as a baobab tree, does all in her power to subdue the monster within, and hunt the ever more powerful creatures attempting to destroy her land.February, 1898. The sanguine Lt. Col. Patterson sails to Africa with an exhilarating task: to build a railway bridge over a muddy river in loathsome territory. A difficult dream, and the hardships of drought are debilitating enough, but when something st...

This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life in the twenty-first century. Here we have both personal andcritical reflections on the differe...