Kibera explores drugs underworld in new self-published thriller

His work suggests extensive geographical research and wide reading. There are few, if any, mundane paragraphs in it. Perhaps this literary inclination runs in the family.

One of the genres many of us enjoyed in our youth was the crime thriller. Young readers in upper primary and lower secondary school devoured the Hardy Boys series and locally familiar, school-approved fare such as Barbara Kimenye’s adventurous Moses series. 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