Black Star Nairobi is a Kenyan crime fiction novel written by Mukoma wa Ngugi, the son of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The novel was published by Melville House International in 2013; it is a sequel to Mukoma’s first novel, Nairobi Heat. Black Star Nairobi focuses on two detectives who investigate a hotel bombing and a murder that are linked. The novel’s backdrop is the 2007 presidential elections in Kenya, which ended in violence.