THE FREQUENCY OF GHOSTS
A Novel of TanzaniaBy A. K. Mfinanga
Length8h 1m
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THE FREQUENCY OF GHOSTS
A Novel of Tanzania
Jabari Msongo was seven years old the first time a dead phone rang.
Buried for three rainy seasons in the red earth of his village, the cracked Nokia had no battery, no SIM card, and no business making a sound. But it rang anyway, and a voice on the other end whispered three words that would shape the rest of his life: Watch for me.
Six years later, poverty sends Jabari from his grandmother's care to live with a wealthy uncle he has never met — a man with a house on the shores of Lake Victoria, a successful contracting business, and a guilty conscience about the family he left behind. For the first time, Jabari has everything he never had: food, school, a future.
He also has a warning he doesn't yet understand.
As the frequency grows stronger and the voice grows closer, Jabari realizes the danger isn't coming from the world of the dead at all. It's already inside the house — smiling across the dinner table, pouring the morning tea, counting down to a night it has been planning for months.
With nothing but his grandmother's ancestral teachings, a battered laptop, and an unlikely alliance with a fearless local journalist, a thirteen-year-old boy must gather the evidence no court will believe came from a ghost — before the only family he has left becomes one.
Spanning a red-dirt village in Shinyanga and the bustling streets of Mwanza, The Frequency of Ghosts is a spellbinding novel of ancestral inheritance, family betrayal, and the quiet, devastating cost of love arriving too late — and just in time.
For readers of Who Fears Death and The Kite Runner, A. K. Mfinanga delivers an unforgettable story about the voices we carry, the family we choose, and the things the dead know long before the living do.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE FREQUENCY OF GHOSTS
2CHAPTER ONE: The Color of Poverty
3CHAPTER TWO: What Bibi Rehema Knows
4CHAPTER THREE: The First Signal
5CHAPTER FOUR: School Without Shoes
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6CHAPTER FIVE: The Letter from Mwanza
7CHAPTER SIX: Arrival
8CHAPTER SEVEN: The House on Mbita Street
9CHAPTER EIGHT: What Zuhura Wants
10CHAPTER NINE: Uncle Cosmas at Sunset
11CHAPTER TEN: The Tea with the Wrong Taste
12CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Locked Room
13CHAPTER TWELVE: Everything the Dead Know
14CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Omari
15CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Journalist
16CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Saturday Afternoon
17CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Zuhura Moves
18CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Long Night
19CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Morning Everything Breaks
20CHAPTER NINETEEN: What the Courts Give Back
21CHAPTER TWENTY: The Frequency of Ghosts
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