Synopsis: "The Flying Saucer is a short novel aimed at a young audience. The story is a distinct blend of realism and fantasy and it follows two orphaned thirteen- year-old brothers, Mwazi and Mwiza as they try to stop their seventeen-year-old sister Wezi from marrying a corrupt man called Matewe. Wezi was warned by their mother before she died not to marry before she turned eighteen. Mwazi and Mwiza follow their mother's orders and report their sister's engagement to Matewe to her spirit at the river. Besides the moralistic stance on child marriage, Kamkondo weaves various other teachings into the novella." (Source: Joanna Woods, Journal of Humanities Vol. 28 No. 1 (2020))