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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...

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...

'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...

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

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...