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		<title>‘The Life &amp; Times of Richard Onyango’ by Richard Onyango</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘The Life &#38; Times of Richard Onyango’ by Richard Onyango
 
This Kwani-ni? edition tells a street-to-canvas bildunsroman of one of Kenya’s most successful artists, inspired by a great love of his life.  Richard Onyango tells his coming of age story; from his beginnings as a musical apprentice at the Coast, to lover of Drossie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The Life of Mzee Ondego’ by Enock Ondego</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mzee Ondego, Kenya’s greatest choirmaster and Kenyatta confidante tells the story of his relationship with Kenya’s founding father. Unknown as the man behind one of Kenya’s most influential songs &#8211; the haunting dirge that played on during those fateful days after the death of Kenya’s first president, Mzee Ondego remembers a time that has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The True Story of David Munyakei; Goldenberg Whistleblower’ by Billy Kahora</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1992, David Sadera Munyakei, a newly employed clerk at the Central Bank of Kenya started noticing irregularities in the export compensation claims he was processing. On July 31st 2006, Kenya’s biggest whistleblower passed away in rural obscurity, 14 years after exposing the Goldenberg scandal, Kenya’s biggest economic scandal to date, estimated at over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kwani? 05 Part 2: ‘Revelations &amp; Conversations’, An Anthology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kwani 5 Part 2 ‘Revelation and Conversation : Part 2 of Kwani? 5, the second 400 pages of a twin edition, further examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections. Here, writers, photographers, poets, cartoonists provide further collective narratives on what we were before, and what we became, during the epochal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kwani? 05, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts From Kwani? 05, Part 1
Truth does not set you free. Instead, truth sets loose. It risks what we hold dear. And there are no assurances.
Daring truth entails risking all we might want to preserve. It means daring to break with family and friends. It means disturbing the fragile peace we inhabit by having difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Series: Kwanini
This trio of sharp-witted essays takes irony to a new level. In How to Write About Africa, Wainaina dissects the African clichés and preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with a ruthless precision. In the same fashion, My Clan KC undresses the layers of meaning shrouding the identity of the infamous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You in America by Chimamanda Adichie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Chimamanda Adichie
Series: Kwanini
This is a love story disguised as a travelogue, the tale of a young Nigerian woman who wins a lottery whose prize is a green card to America. Does everyone there own a big house, a big car, and a gun? Not quite, though it turns out there are worse things than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weight of Whispers by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Series: Kwanini
Awards: 2003 Caine Prize
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor followed Wainaina’s example by winning the 2003 Caine Prize with her evocative tale of a Rwandan aristocrat who fled to Kenya in the wake of the 1994 genocide. The characters in Weight of Whispers come draped in history, wrapping the world’s dramas around their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering Home by Binyavanga Wainaina</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Series: Kwanini
Awards: Winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African fiction
Winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African fiction, Discovering Home tells the Kenyan version of that universal story: returning home and seeing it for the first time. By turns compassionate and bitingly ironic, this Kwanini takes readers on a whirlwind journey from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Chimamanda Adichie
Series: Kwani
Chimamanda Adichie was 25 years old when she wrote her debut novel, which isn’t in itself a reason to read it. But it does add to the wonder evoked by such a gripping narration of the many forms oppression can take. Purple Hibiscus follows a young woman’s liberation from her tyrannical father; [...]]]></description>
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