The Three Hunters


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Greed, dishonesty and pride are the themes of these four stories, designed to encourage reading for pleasure. The stories are "The Three Hunters", "Nyakalondo and the Merciless Father", "Hare Learns a Lesson", and "Lion, Hare and the Thorn".




Kandu and the Lake


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Kandu lives with his parents in a fishing village near a big lake. Kandu's father is a fisherman, and sometimes allows Kandu to accompany him to the shore. Kandu sits and watches the men, and women, and donkeys going about their daily business, or he plays with the other boys. One day, he starts helping a woman at the store to wrap fried fish, for which he was paid enough to buy sweets. He soon prefers this, to going to school. But when his father and his teacher find out what he is doing, they arevery angry.




Further Adventures of the Black Hand Gang


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The Black Hand Gang is a neighbourhood group of young Kenyans, which meets in the eastern part of Nairobi. The gang members, Onyango, Waithaka, his sister Jane, V.J. Patel and Hassan make a lot of friends trying to help other people. The story is intended as a supplementary text for children fluent in reading, to encourage reading for pleasure.




Mworia the Warrior


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Sundiata


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Sundiata is the story of a man who lived in West Africa almost 800 years ago. It is the myth of a hunter's prophecy that a king will marry an ugly foreign woman who will give birth to a son, who will come to rule the kingdom on Mali. It is a tale of conquest and heroism.




When Ogres Lived


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Three tales from western Kenya relate strange happenings between humans and ogres.




Adventures of Pongo and Uncle Talema


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This reader is about a young man, Pongo, whose parents are captured by unknown people. He goes to search for them together with his uncle, Talema. This story tells about their troubles, their escapes and the rescue of many people.




A Girl who Could Not Keep Quiet


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Adventure in Nakuru


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Frank Martin is given a brief case by a mysterious stranger, and asked to deliver it to Professor Kyla. The briefcase contains evidence of a chemical company poisoning Lake Nakuru.