Eastafrican Stories

In the village, if things go wrong, you blame the crows. In Kampala, you blame the children. Enter Mwami Senoga's compound, where Nalongo reads a crow as a death sentence and Ruth watches from the West Wing with marigolds in her teeth. Enter Teddy and Stella, who stole sugarcane from a witch and are praying nobody notices. Then enter a fierce stepmother from Kasenyi, armed with the holy trinity of traditional parenting: hard work, high expectations, and a very flexible leather belt. Enter her new stepdaughter in Kololo, who isn't trying to be stubborn. She is just drowning in the beautiful, chaotic static of undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD. As village superstitions collide with modern city realities, this family is forced to realize that running from ancestral curses is the easy part. The real battle is surviving breakfast.

Some are born original. Some are forced to become. Esha was a woman who saw through the world as a guest, possessing it was never a question-hope of belonging, giving more than taking-remaining invisible fit like a glove instead. A man like Antares, waltzed into her life, promising the universe in exchange for her trust. The world she stood on tilted, the heart murmured fears, the body recoiled in memory of hands unbidden, the mind curled into itself hoping to have dreamt it away, while the soul recognized a kindred spirit. Yet when two wounded strangers recognize themselves in each other, the personas they built to survive begin to fracture. How to trust a woman whose scars marred the body like ink? How to trust a man whose skin bleeds from his very sins? What to make of kithship so visceral-it possesses the body in stupor? Who were they when no one was watching? A story of identity. Complexity. And the selves we keep becoming. Reader discretion is advised. Updates every Wednesday, 12:00 AM EDT.

All she wanted was a new start to get away from all the hurt in Uganda,so she moved for a fresh start to the US from which she plans to open up her simple bakery.... He was a ruthless billionaire ,he gets whatever he wants and any obstacle in his way he will remove it by all means! His hurting too but no one can see it,maybe his life was just a façade. They all have demons from the past ..but the question is will they be able to help each other or will they push away each other?

After years since their first and only encounter, Esme and Alain meet again. CEO of Rwanda's finest hotel, La Émeraude, Esme Mutoni is challenged by the arrival of Alain Shyaka, the newest board member. He is an eloquent, assertive and magnetic man and he has more experience than she's got. But she's incredibly fervent especially when it comes to what's hers so she won't go down without a fight. When Alain wants something, he reaches out his hand and grabs it! At such a young age, he's accomplished way too much he figured there's nothing he can't have until he tries to reach for Esme's heart. Dazed by her stellar beauty and intellectual acuity, he's convinced talking himself into backing out of this battle is inconceivable. Characters _ Alain Shyaka & Esme Mutoni

FoodFromThePearlOfAfrica

Dead men don't talk........ really?!!!! Suuna and Emma have everything an average teen would want-the wealth,the love,the fame and the coolest clothes.Though there is only one ugly stain on their life. Their father, a famous Kampala tycoon, was killed by unknown gunmen and still a year of investigations has not yielded any good. Now as the family carries out the man's last wish, a series of unexpected events suddenly plunges the two brothers into a maze of chilling puzzles about the year-old crime.With a deadly foe on their heels and haunted by the ghosts of their father's past, Suuna and Emma have to put the pieces together and uncover the secrets of their dad's murder before the world goes against them as they solve the most chilling, dangerous and difficult mystery in Kampala, Uganda. The past is always a deadly future.

Akello came from the village with dreams bigger than her kavera bag. Bwaise gave her blisters, instead of hope, and a phone that lights up in the middle of the night: "My love, you better run so far away." But run where? When the city has already swallowed her whole? ASHEN is the story of a girl learning that survival isn't about staying clean. It's about learning to rise from the ash. But despite all that will Akello soar high, cry, or rather she will burn in Kampala fires?