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This historical novel chronicles the struggle and evolution of an African boy born in rural colonial Kenya, to become a cosmopolitan adult. It depicts his struggles against poverty, ignorance, nepotism, bigotry and racism. While the narrative is entertaining its focus is to motivate the reader to strive and reach his own chosen goal. As the title implies, much of what you aspire to is within your grasp if determination and desire are present. Its message is universal and relevant to readers of all ages.

Stephen Musyoki has hardly established his new career as a private investigator when a family friend asks him to look into the sudden and mysterious death of the former's son. He is determined not to disappoint his father's friend so he agrees to help but little does he know or anticipate the forces that are determined to keep the truth from ever reaching the light of day. Finding out what happened becomes suddenly perilous but to Stephen, it is simply a matter of keeping a promise and establishing his new business, regardless of the obstacles in his path. Another murder is in the air. Will...

The colonial government has just arrested people it considers leading agitators for independence, an act that unleashes sudden and brutal changes resulting in dislocation of families of both the colonizers and the colonized. The exploitive minority government then declares war on its ethnic majority and the push-back brings about unintended consequences as individuals caught in the maelstrom strive to survive the upheaval. Much has been written about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya during the latter half of the twentieth century but little is told of the individuals who lived through this...

The pain remained wedded to her heart throughout the years. "Could it be possible her son knew the whereabouts of his brother but was not telling," she thought - from The Activist Preacher Imagine a world without roads or any means of modern transportation, a world without any written language, schools or books, or even the notion that there could be anything interesting beyond the horizon. King'ele Muthembwa is born into such a world on the open savannah of Kenya, and early in his life becomes determined to change it. He is an independent thinker who refuses to kowtow to traditionally...