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Dance of the Jakaranda, Peter Kimani

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Dance of the Jakaranda

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Peter Kimani

An ambitious and groundbreaking story of African colonization in which humanity is celebrated in all its complexity. Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa, and the special circumstances that brought black, brown, and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the birth of the nation. The novel traces the lives and loves of three men brought together by the railway, which intersect when preacher Richard Turnbull, the colonial administrator Ian McDonald, and Indian worker Babu Salim are implicated in the controversial birth of a child. Years later, when Babu's grandson, a singer named Rajan, accidentally kisses a mysterious stranger in a dark nightclub, the encounter provides the spark to illuminate the three men's shared, murky past