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Kimani reimagines the rise and semester of colonialism in Africa by revealing the story of the delivery of Kenya's railroad. Set in the darkness of Kenya's self-reliance from THE UK, Party of the Jakaranda reimagines the rise and semester of colonialism and the special circumstances that helped bring black, brownish, and white men collectively to lay down the railroad that heralded the delivery of the country. The book traces the lives and loves of three men: preacher Richard Turnbull, the colonial administrator Ian McDonald, and Indian tech Babu Salim, whose lives intersect when they are implicated in the controversial birth of a child. Years later, when Babu's grandson, Rajan - who ekes out a living by performing Babu's epic stories of the railway's building - inadvertently kisses a secret stranger in a dark nightclub, the come across provides the spark to illuminate the three men's shared murky past. Party of the Jakaranda is possibly a story of globalization - not simply because of its riveting multiracial, multicultural cast but also due to its diverse literary allusions: from Chekhovian funny to Kafkasque caricatures, or wonderful realism popularized by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The novel is solidly anchored in the African storytelling traditions, its language a dreamy, exalted, and earthy combination that creates new thresholds of personality, providing a brand new metaphor for competition in modern Africa.
