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“my Freedom sleeping in there! Then they are helping her dig through the broken slabs and then Makubongwe appears carrying Freedom, and his small body is so limp and covered in dust you think it’s just a thing and not a baby.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“guess it was supposed to be this crazy new dance, daggering is the name of it. I thought it strange and wrong, but after a while I found myself clapping because that’s what everyone was doing. When a new, quieter song came on, Tony turned me around and”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“I read it because hidden things are meant to be discovered.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“The idea of land ‘ownership’ as such was an alien one. A white farmer once told me of his grandfather going to see a local chief about buying some land. ‘Buy land?’ said the chief. ‘You must be crazy, you don’t buy the wind or the water or the trees.”
― When A Crocodile Eats the Sun
― When A Crocodile Eats the Sun
“They came in droves, abandoning the tatters that were our country. We did not think about mending the tatters, all we thought was: Leave, abandon, flee, run—anything. Escape.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
Nairobi 1st Thurs book club
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The first Thursday of the month a group of avid Nairobi readers meets to discuss their latest read. Every second book is by an African author. Meetin ...more
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for anyone with a knack for digging out good reads that may not be necessarily popular.
Anna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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