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Mukoma Ngugi gives distorted portrait of Nairobi in his novel- Nairobi Heat

By Jennifer Muchiri

NAIROBI, KENYA: How best does one describe their homeland? The title of Mukoma wa Ngugi’s novel, Nairobi Heat, raises one’s curiosity to find out what the writer has to say about Nairobi. 

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