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At dusk in the highlands of Gusii, Moraa Nyabwororo tends the evening fire, the heart of her home, the keeper of her people's multigenerational memory. In its glow, the voices of the past still speak. Before her birth, her father Anuri sought the seers for answers to grief he could not name. Into his household came Moraa Ng'iti, who was the aunt of the fallen warrior Otenyo, a woman of visions and sorrow, fleeing the violence that claimed her kin. From Moraa Ng'iti, the young Nyabwororo inherits more than stories. She also learns the fire's secret language of resistance and remembrance. From Otenyo's broken spear rises a fragile hope that even when thunder fades, a people's voice endures. The Evening Song is a haunting intergenerational epic of prophecy, grief, remembrance, and resilience; a testament to survival as defiance.

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Nelson Barnabas (Marcus Crypto) is a Kenyan writer, poet, and storyteller from the Gusii highlands, where oral tradition, sacred landscapes, and ancestral memory shape the rhythm of life. His work weaves lyrical prose with spiritual depth, exploring themes of naming, resistance, womanhood, and the quiet aftershocks of colonial intrusion.He is the author of A Sad Song and Across the Sea Song (both poetry collections) and a contributor to several international poetry collections. The Evening Song is his debut novel.

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