Going Down River Road

Ben is a man on the move in seedy clubs and pubs in Nairobi’s River Road. In one of those places, he meets a working girl and single mother named Wini and takes a liking to her. She moves in his single-room accommodation with her him little boy and the three become family. Then she suddenly runs off with her office boss leaving her son behind. Ben, a construction site labourer with meagre resources, is stuck with what to do with the boy.Mwangi’s treatment of the serious situation makes and unforgettable impact.Author of Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick and The Cockroach Dance, has written on a variety of topics; from rural strive and urban despair, to political decadence and social decay; in novels like The Big Chiefs, Crossroads and Kasim The Komedian.