The Trails I Walked at the Foot of Ngong Hills

Bahati, a compassionate, spirited, young girl, is growing up in Nairobi, Kenya. The story opens with her home in a humble neighborhood with white-painted houses and leaf-green roofs. She later moves with her family to their family home at the foot of Ngong Hills. Her neighbors and classmates are an eclectic assortment of cultures, and so are her parents. Not fully Akamba like her father, and not fully African American like her mother, Bahati is unsure of where she fits in.

When Bahati leaves her life at the foot of the Ngong Hills for the bustling city in America, she meets a kind, humble, Japanese man, Isamu, who is different from her in more ways than she can imagine. As tradition and the modern world begin to collide, Bahati and Isamu learn that acceptance, beauty, and understanding come in many forms.

This addition to the canon of works on multiculturalism is meant to inspire a new generation of storytellers to consider their own histories and tell their own tales.