Ikhlas Gafur Vora

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.

Set in the shadowy underbelly of Mombasa city, PEREMENDE is a gritty thriller that exposes the human cost of survival in a system where bodies are commodities and morality is negotiable.