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The Best of Whispers
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Best of Whispers
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How to be a Kenyan
Peter Enahoro wrote a famously funny book, The Complete Nigerian, and the follow-up How to be a Nigerian. In similar mode, a Kenyan writer has produced a series of hilarious essays about what it means to be a Kenyan. Described as painfully true and outrageously witty, the book is a light-hearted illustration of the particularities of thought, manners and attitude of Kenyan people.
Political Opression and Individual Alienation
Muindu's work analyses the fictional rendition of inhuman politics in Moi's Kenya. The author analyses three novels by Wahome Mutahi, the renowned Kenyan humourist, and shows the individual alienation engendered by the political oppression obtaining in Kenya in the period spanned by the novels. He also explicates the resistances produced by this oppression and brings out the vision of social justice espoused in the three texts as the alienated characters endeavour to transcend their debilitating circumstances. The book is an insightful reading in popular fiction and the politics of nation building.
The Laughing Cry
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Three Days on the Cross
The author, a well-known Kenyan journalist, and a former detainee, sets his novel in an un-named African country ruled by the Illustrious One - a paranoiac despot. When he demands a crackdown on dissidents, the director of the special police must please him with arrests and detentions. Two of the suspects, a bank employee and a newspaper reporter, are denounced to the authorities, and detained. What follows is a story of Kafkaesque horror, following the men through the dungeons and torture chambers hidden in the capital of a nation masquerading as civil society. The novel enjoyed instant bestseller success in Kenya.
