Roots of the Broken Baobab
Roots of the Broken Baobab is a sweeping, multi-generational novel about silence, resistance, and the fragile threads that hold families together across time and borders.
From the quiet strength of a rural village to the noisy uncertainty of city streets, this lyrical narrative follows three generations of women, Nyaboke, Akoth, and Nyaoro, as they navigate political unrest, personal betrayals, and the weight of unspoken histories. Each woman inherits silence in a different shape. Each must choose whether to keep it, question it, or finally break it.
In a Kenya scarred by colonialism and silenced by dictatorship, the women's lives are tied to the baobab tree that stands in their yard. It is a witness. A shelter. And eventually, a grave. Through whispered rumours, lost fathers, and fractured memory, Roots of the Broken Baobab explores what it means to belong, to a place, to a story, and to each other.
Poetic and poignant, this novel is a love letter to resilience, a reckoning with the past, and a quiet revolution rooted in the soil of home.
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