Billed by the author as “not a travel memoir”, this is also a polemic about the injustices of migration policy and racism
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Book review: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya)
The UK’s Observer described Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s 2014 novel Dust as “the most important novel to come out of Africa since Half of a Yellow Sun“, but I struggled with it. The book opens in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007, where a young man, Odidi, is gunned down, leaving his family devastated by grief. …
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Review no 144: Supa Modo – a movie from Kenya
Emotionally intense Kenyan “family film”
Review no 102: Artist Wangechi Mutu (Kenya)
AFRICA Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu was suggested to my daughter by her school art teacher as worthy of research on the topic of “marginalised female artists”, in response to the BLM protests. This provided me with some much-needed inspiration, and a new artist to find out more about. I hope to visit galleries again in …
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