Best of whispers politics, family and society

by Wahome Mutahi

A compilation of the late Wahome Mutahi's Whispers articles.

Genres: Humor

218 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2018

About the author

Wahome Mutahi was one of the most beloved humourists of Kenya. He was popularly known as Whispers after the name of the column he wrote for The Daily Nation from 1982 to 2003, offering a satirical view of the trials and tribulations of Kenyan life.
-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Wangũi Ng'ang'a · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whispers' writing was always top-notch, and I would easily have given this five stars. Unfortunately, the editing and proofreading was poorly done, so the book is full of grammatical, spelling, punctuation and formatting errors. A legend like Wahome Mutahi surely deserved a better consolidation of his legacy!! Moreover, the book would have been of far greater value had each article been preceded by a paragraph or two giving an overview of the events and people satirised in the article so as to give some context and ensure that this compilation remains relatable for generations to come. It is a tragedy that the publisher did not aim for a higher level of excellence. Five stars to the Son of the Soil, and one to Twaweza Communications.

[Suzanne Majani · Rating 4 out of 5]

When press and media freedom was literally non-existent in Kenya much of the reporting was left to satire and innovation by journalists. I appreciated reading this anthology of stories by Whispers who stood the test of the dark press days of the Moi regime to deliver a weekly article, even when he got arrested and threatened for writing them. Unfortunately the editors compiling the book let us down with proofreading 😓

[Kevin Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe it is because I had read most of them and the nostalgia is more of a realization that we as Kenyans are back to this era and it just saddens me. The humor is made dry by this and lost in the page. A trailblazer in free speech with comic relief .

[Kúi ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kenyan to the core🇰🇪🇰🇪🙌🙌😍... couldn't stop turning the pages.. literally every single article was so hilarious

[Cherono Sawe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The grammatical errors annoyed abit.

[Martin Omedo · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has been a while since I read such a humourous book in my reading escapades. Whispers, the man from the Mountain Slopes, was a genius.

The book was quite prophetic. Some of the things highlighted way back in time are now with us. We once have someone with a character of a chokora manage the city of Nairobi; we have sheng stations everywhere, political correctness is on its Zenith etc. etc.

Much of his writings enunciates contemporary events despite being written some decades back.

This book is a hodgepodge of many things, humour, history, satire, fiction, name it. That is what makes an exciting read. I would recommend it to anyone who considers laughing fun.

[Tracy Sereti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious as expected

[Mansoor Nandlal · Rating 4 out of 5]

He was my favorite author and columnist in Sunday Nation

[Leila · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious, Kenyan, timeless and a fun read. It's sad to think we're in the same situation (a brutal dictatorship) nearly 20 years later.