“Is that everything, Kipto?” Mama Rose Hardie stood in the kitchen of her one-bedroom thatched cottage on the edge of Nanyuki, a market town in the shadow of Mount Kenya, three hours’ drive north of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. In her early 60s, she was tall and thin, with a face lined from yours of working[…]
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The Meaning of ‘Kanga’ in the Kenya Kanga Mystery Series
Fowl Murder is the first book in the Kenya Kanga mystery series. Where does the title for this series come from? ‘Kanga’ has two meanings in Kiswahili, the national language of Kenya. The first is ‘guinea fowl’. Most commonly seen in Kenya are flocks of red or blue-wattled helmeted guinea fowl, with white spots on[…]
