Stanley Gazemba

Stanley Gazemba is the author of several novels, including Forbidden Fruit. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and is an editor at Ketebul Music.

Dogmeat Samosa by Stanley Gazemba

Stanley Gazemba
Raleigh, North Carolina. Regal House. 2019. 206 pages. In this masterful collection of short stories, characters from urban Nairobi and rural villages burst into life in bold, expressionistic strokes,…
From Aden to Kampala to Washington, DC

November 2017
Stanley Gazemba
I bought Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy on a visit to her Somaliland hometown, Hargeisa. When I visited, Hargeisa was a dreary city—at least that was my first impression—until I got to kno…
Forbidden Fruit by Stanley Gazemba

Stanley Gazemba
New York. The Mantle. 2017. 280 pages. Winner of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, this deceptively simple and straightforward novel of day-to-day life in the small village of Ivona in western K…