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I Refuse to Die
Author: Koigi Wa Wamwere
language: en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date: 2011-01-04
An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the Kenyan people, as well as dream prophecy and folk tales that are part of Kenya's rich storytelling tradition. Tracing the roots of the Mau Mau rebellion, wa Wamwere follows the evolution and degeneration of Jomo Kenyatta and the rise of Daniel arap Moi. In 1979, wa Wamwere won a seat in the parliament, where he represented the economically depressed Nakuru district for three years. An outspoken activist and journalist, wa Wamwere was framed and detained on three separate instances, spending thirteen years in prison, where he was tortured but not broken. His mother and others led a hunger strike to free him and fellow political prisoners. Their efforts brought about a show trial at which Koigi was sentenced to four more years in prison and "six strokes of the cane," and escaped Kenya—and probably execution—only through the exertions of human rights groups and the government of Norway.
Conversations with Leopard
Author: Paula Burns
language: en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date: 2015-03-28
Conversations with Leopard, is a meditative account of living with chronic illness - portrayed through a delicate interweaving of memoir and magic realism. Writing from within the confines of her bedroom, the narrator recalls the moment in time when she began to take on the persona of a hunted leopard - a strange metamorphosis of gender and identity that takes place in the weeks leading up to her becoming sick. The narrative has been written in real time - spanning a period of twenty four years (a period of time close to the predicted life span of a leopard in captivity). The author’s garden (an ever-present backdrop) is the doorway to a magical space inhabited by Sun and Moon (characterized as jealous sisters) and a Spirit Child (the narrator’s lost childhood self). Interwoven within this backdrop is the story of a young girl growing up in the Midlands in the 1950’s and 1960’s and her affection for the alternative world of her grandparents who live ‘up North’. The leopard, known simply as Leopard, becomes a character in his own right and the narrator’s friend and confidant. Leopard is astute and challenges the narrator as she mulls over her life history and present situation. With a lightness of touch, and insightful humour, the narrator evokes the perennial big questions of life - culminating in the realisation that the answer to all of our doubts and uncertainties is nearer and simpler than we allow.
Satanskin
SATANSKIN is the collection of "graveyard erotica” first published in 1992, twenty stories promising "sex magick, lunar mutiny, excremental demonolatry, in utero lycanthropy, sadomasochistic vampirism, oneiric post-mortem malediction, and other bizarre manias”. In Devil's Gold, a transsexual pact with faecal demons leads to unbounded metamorphoses; a maniac with White Meat Fever steals female anatomy to usurp the moon; skinless nuns with Shadow Sickness fall prey to a priapic scavenger from Hell; a hapless traveller enters the Tongue Cathedral and finds himself inside a vampire's wet-dream; in The Venus Eye, an angel wreaks retribution on a paedophiliac butcher from within her coffin... This new 20th anniversary ebook edition also includes the bonus story Third Eye Butterfly, an out-take from the original book.