2017 Winner, The Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (Kiswahili Adult Category)

Novel: Mashetani wa Alepo

Dr Geoffrey Wango, a senior lecturer in Counselling Psychology at the University of Nairobi, explains that Kenya’s ‘sandwich generation’ mostly ranges from 35 to 54 years-most of whom are already settled down in their own marriages but have to financially bankroll older folk.