Citizens of Nowhere
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ISBN13: 9798254940906
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 9 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 9 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Citizens of Nowhere is a powerful, deeply personal novel based on the real events of Kenya's June 2024 protests.
When the government pushes through a controversial Finance Bill that threatens to crush ordinary families, Michael Muriithi, a young Kenyan trying to build a quiet life, joins thousands of others marching peacefully toward Parliament. What begins as a day of hope and unified voices quickly descends into chaos as tear gas fills the air and live bullets echo through the streets of Nairobi.
When the government pushes through a controversial Finance Bill that threatens to crush ordinary families, Michael Muriithi, a young Kenyan trying to build a quiet life, joins thousands of others marching peacefully toward Parliament. What begins as a day of hope and unified voices quickly descends into chaos as tear gas fills the air and live bullets echo through the streets of Nairobi.
Caught in the smoke and fear, Michael witnesses friends and strangers bleeding on the pavement, holds a dying man's hand, and runs through back alleys with people he has just met people who become his family in the darkness. As the days unfold, he struggles with the silent reckoning that follows: fractured family bonds, the weight of memory, and the painful realization that his own country no longer feels like home.
Raw, emotional, and unflinchingly honest, Citizens of Nowhere captures the human cost of speaking up in a system that has stopped listening. It is a story of courage and grief, of small acts of kindness in the middle of horror, and of ordinary people who discover they have become citizens without a country that protects them yet find strength and belonging in one another.
For anyone who has ever felt unseen by the powerful, or wondered what it truly costs to demand dignity, this book will stay with you long after the final page.
A fictionalized account drawn from real events that shook Kenya in 2024
Raw, emotional, and unflinchingly honest, Citizens of Nowhere captures the human cost of speaking up in a system that has stopped listening. It is a story of courage and grief, of small acts of kindness in the middle of horror, and of ordinary people who discover they have become citizens without a country that protects them yet find strength and belonging in one another.
For anyone who has ever felt unseen by the powerful, or wondered what it truly costs to demand dignity, this book will stay with you long after the final page.
A fictionalized account drawn from real events that shook Kenya in 2024
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