ISBN 9789966569219
Pages 416
Dimensions 203x133 mm
Published 2015
Publisher East African Educational Publishers, Kenya
Format Hardback

Black Ghosts

by Ken N. Kamoche

Dan Chiponda earns a scholarship to study in China and reluctantly leaves his native Zimbabwe for an uncertain future. Learning to take racial abuse in his stride, he dates a fellow student, Lai Ying, who is attracted to his easy-going manner. He remains haunted by the weight of his mother's expectations, encapsulated by the image of the African fish eagle. Things take a dramatic turn when Chinese students pour into the streets in an orgy of violence to drive Africans out of town. The situation in Nanjing only stabilises when attention turns to the mayhem that is unraveling in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. But that is only the beginning of Dan's troubles with the 'Campus Gestapo', loan sharks in Hong Kong, and the shock of his family getting caught up in the violence by

Mugabe's war vets. Black Ghosts was inspired by stories of Africans living in China in the 1980s and, in particular, by the little known incident in Nanjing, where African and Chinese students engaged each other in a violent battle just months before the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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About the Author

Ken N. Kamoche

Ken N. Kamoche studied Commerce at the University of Nairobi, then earned a Masters and doctorate in Management at Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He worked and lived in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2007. He is currently based in the UK. His first work of fiction, A Fragile Hope was shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Award.