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Coles Gods in the Basement at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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The city remembers. And it is starting to forget.
Kampala breathes. In the cracked pavements and smoky dawn markets, in the murmurs that drift from alleys no one dares name — the city has always carried its secrets in its bones. Kato has always known this, the way you know a story told so many times it becomes your own heartbeat. He just never believed it.
Then the market stalls begin to vanish. Murals bleed blank. Voices of the dead thread through the night wind like a warning. A curse is unraveling the city from within — erasing not just places, but memory itself — and Kato's grandmother's relic, a necklace pulsing with something older and fiercer than grief, is pointing him straight toward the dark.
With only the skeptical, fiercely loyal Nakyanzi by his side, Kato must descend into a world where ancestral gods stir in forgotten basements, where the line between myth and catastrophe was never as clean as he wanted to believe, and where saving the city means confronting the truth his bloodline has carried for generations.
Gods in the Basement is a richly atmospheric debut — a story of heritage and haunting, of two young people caught between the pull of the past and the urgency of the present, set against the vivid, relentless pulse of modern Kampala.
For readers of Nnedi Ofofor's Who Fears Death **, Reni K. Amayo's** Daughters of Nri **, and Tomi Adeyemi's** Children of Blood and Bone **.**
The city remembers. And it is starting to forget.
Kampala breathes. In the cracked pavements and smoky dawn markets, in the murmurs that drift from alleys no one dares name — the city has always carried its secrets in its bones. Kato has always known this, the way you know a story told so many times it becomes your own heartbeat. He just never believed it.
Then the market stalls begin to vanish. Murals bleed blank. Voices of the dead thread through the night wind like a warning. A curse is unraveling the city from within — erasing not just places, but memory itself — and Kato's grandmother's relic, a necklace pulsing with something older and fiercer than grief, is pointing him straight toward the dark.
With only the skeptical, fiercely loyal Nakyanzi by his side, Kato must descend into a world where ancestral gods stir in forgotten basements, where the line between myth and catastrophe was never as clean as he wanted to believe, and where saving the city means confronting the truth his bloodline has carried for generations.
Gods in the Basement is a richly atmospheric debut — a story of heritage and haunting, of two young people caught between the pull of the past and the urgency of the present, set against the vivid, relentless pulse of modern Kampala.
For readers of Nnedi Ofofor's Who Fears Death **, Reni K. Amayo's** Daughters of Nri **, and Tomi Adeyemi's** Children of Blood and Bone **.**
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