3 - The Reinvention of the Theory of Failed Morality in Kenya and Africa
Corresponding Author(s) : Tom Odhiambo
Revue africaine des livres,
Vol. 5 No 2 (2009): Revue africaine des Livres, volume 5, n° 2, 2009
Résumé
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? ...