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How to Euthanise a Cactus

Keguro Macharia reviews Stephen Derwent Partington's poetry collection, How to Euthanise a Cactus, the work of a poet with an unrelenting voice and an ability to do that often illusive thing- make the public personal. In this collection, Partington brings his gift to find words describing what we...

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Tale of Kasaya

In his review of Tale of Kasaya, Andrew Doughman finds in the book, a refusal to "romanticize" Kenya, a story of "stark realism" that he says serves to alert society to the plight of house help. Read here his full review which appeared in The EastAfrican newspaper, of a book that provides an...

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?The True Story of David Munyakei? by Billy Kahora KWANI? Series, published by Kwani Trust.

'The True Story of David Munyakei' by Billy Kahora: Review by Parselelo Kantai. When in 2004, David Sadera Munyakei, a former Central Bank of Kenya employee who a decade before had leaked crucial documents related to the Goldenberg financial scandal, appeared before a public inquiry investigating...

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After the Vote : Editorial (Now integrated into and available as part of Kwani? 05 Part 1)

A writer friend of mine excitedly called me during the first week of 2008 and declared: 'this is the time of the Kenyan writer.

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After The Vote : 5 Dispatches from the coalition of Concerned Kenyan Writers

The Kwanini? series reminds Dr. Tom Odhiambo here of the pocket-size economy that came years ago to East Africa - the small sachet margarine and the likes; if economies create inequalities, then industry follows by creating super-small for the common-man. Luckily, he finds the pocket-size...

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