Black Star Nairobi Black Star Nairobi Black Star Nairobi is a Kenyan crime fiction novel written by Mukoma wa Ngugi, the son of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The novel was published by Melville House International in 2013; it is a sequel to Mukoma’s first novel, "Nairobi Heat." "Black Star Nairobi" focuses on two detectives who investigate a hotel bombing and a murder that are linked. The novel’s backdrop is the 2007 presidential elections in Kenya, which ended in violence. Ishmael, an African American detective originally from Madison, Wisconsin, relocates to Kenya and starts a detective agency called the Black Star Agency with
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