Wayward eastlanders / Okang'a Ooko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ooko, Okang'a, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption--Kenya--Fiction.

Corruption.

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

431 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Nairobi, Kenya : Oba Kunta Octopus, [2024]

Summary:

"Atieno Mary Bella is a troubled enterprise owner whose struggles with her work, doubts about her talent, and complicated relationships often puts her at odds over affections associated with men. Working for her is Akombe Bosibori, a backstabbing marketer who has designed a campaign for a multi-million national disability project that will utilise government funds to raise awareness in the low income areas of Nairobi. However, the whole thing is orchestrated by a man in a wheelchair, the flamboyant Tutu Kulundeng, a mastermind and organiser of grand schemes for the cartel-run government. He wants an existing advertising agency to use to siphon millions from the government. Using the scrawny underdog, Kiprotich, he knows how to manipulate Bosibori. Atieno and Bosibori place their bets on four unreliable characters in their power struggle: Atieno on Papa Gachietha, a shylock and grand thief, and on Ojuku, a ghetto thug. Bosibori places hers on Kulundeng and on Pastor Otodo, a greedy two-timing preacher who brainwashes with intent to take over Atieno's company and add it to his wealth as an asset of his church. Kulundeng, Otodo, Gachietha and Ojuku think they know the ropes; and women. Maybe they do. But they don't know Atieno too well, otherwise they'd have realised that they are just flies stumbling into the deadly web of a woman whose danger comes from her waywardness and instability, heightened by the hard life of Eastlands, with which she was fatally touched."-- Author's website.

Notes:

Novel.

ISBN:

9789966093516

9966093516

OCLC:

1416967264