Peace Mbengei’s We Run the Night turns a Kenyan boarding school into a sealed arena for folklore, grief and body horror. This five-star YA horror debut makes the night runners frightening, but the adults who refuse to listen are worse.
Peace Mbengei
Peace Mbengei Interview: We Run the Night and the Luo Night Runners
Peace Mbengei talks through her debut YA horror novel We Run the Night, where Luo night runners turn grief into body horror inside a Kenyan boarding school. She discusses the strangler fig at the story’s centre, the institutional cover up that follows, and why forgiveness, not revenge, sets her heroine free.
