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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009): Africa Review of Books, Volume 5, n° 2, 2009

Issue Published : January 6, 2022

3 - The Reinvention of the Theory of Failed Morality in Kenya and Africa

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v5i2.4837
Tom Odhiambo
Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8364-2185

Corresponding Author(s) : Tom Odhiambo

tom.odhiambo@uonbi.ac.ke

Africa Review of Books, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009): Africa Review of Books, Volume 5, n° 2, 2009
Article Published : September 10, 2009

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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower by Michela Wrong
Fourth Estate (London), 2009, ISBN 9-0-00-724196-5


Michela Wrong’s book arrived in Kenya in a very clandestine manner in the early months of 2009. It did not come via the usual route of the bookshops. Rather, excerpts from it were serialized in the leading Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation. When the real copies of the book reached Nairobi, they were being sold by newspaper vendors on the streets and free copies were being given out by a Kiss Frequency Modulation (FM) radio station. Callers were asked to state why they wanted to read the book; they would then be offered free copies. But why was this book not being sold in the bookshops, as one would have normally expected? ...

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Reinvention Failed Morality Kenya

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Tom Odhiambo, Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi.

TOM ODHIAMBO teaches literature at the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi. Between 2003 and 2007, he was a Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Apart from writing academic book reviews, he also reviews books in The Daily Nation of Kenya. 

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