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
History of Nairobi reserve bordering on a capital city in the world. After independence, Nairobi grew rapidly and this growth put pressure on the city's infrastructure. Power cuts and water shortages were a common occurrence, though in the past few years better city planning has helped to put some of these problems in check. In 1975 Nairobi was the host city of the 5th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The U.S. embassy in the heart of Nairobi was bombed on August 7, 1998 by Al-Qaida, as one of a series of U.S. embassy bombings. Over two hundred civilians were killed in