Adventure story set at sea in Diani, along Kenya’s south coast, near the historic Shimoni Slavas Caves. Kanze, a young Digo girl with special powers, her brother Komob, and their friends, set out to find Kanze’s late grandfather Menza’s Kigango (cultural memorial effigy placed on tombstones), which has been stolen by village youth who sell it for money to a European collector, who intends to smuggle it to Europe. Kanze’s Mijikenda people believe that once an erected Kigango is removed, misfortune befalls descendants of the ancestor whose Kigango has been distrubed.
Moraa Gitaa, a Kenyan novelist and peace studies and conflict management/resolution researcher, is a non-conforminst, gifted with the dyslexic variation of dyscalculia, and she thus has no relationship with numbers, formulas, and any sort of arithmetic! Moraa has written two adult novels and two previous YA/children’s books. She was a 2018 apexart New York City Fellow, a social integration-cultural immersion residency program…
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