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WHY DOES reading Poetry have to be such a tiresome exercise? Do you have to get a Pound-ing headache just by going through a poem(if so then it is easier for me to bang my head on the wall, its faster, gives a more thorough headache) Do you have to spend hours trying to figure out what each dialogized word means, as it can mean 150 thousand things? (what a Wasteland of brains, filling a crossword

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Kenya should have won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2004’s Babu’s Babies written and directed by Christine Bala. Compare it to Gavin Hood’s South African Oscar award winning film Tsotsi. The reason why the later won and the former is relatively unknown is a lesson for every script writer, for everything else about them is so similar.In Babu’s Babies, Babu Mereka aka Baba Juma, a

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Preamble: I have been sent by the Parliament of Drunkards with this Hansard of the proceedings that take place at the People’s Parliament, that is Njuguna’s Bar, mostly on late night past closing hours. We normally lock ourselves with a bottle of Bozoi Vodka as the Official Mace, which is carried by the sergeant at Arms Mr Ole Tukkoi, whose official job is the night guard at the pub. The speaker

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KIZUIZINI:DETAINING OUR STORIES.Just like Japan in the late 18th Century, ever since Kenya was exposed to the European world in the 1980’s, it has been faced with the herculian task of embracing the new and at the same time not letting any of its sedimentary self be replaced, sometimes with violent resistance. So was China’s resistance to the outside world during its cultural revolution. The

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o claims that in writing The Wizard Of The Crow, his main aim was to “Sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history” If that was the case, then in his book the history of Africa can be summed up in one word: Greed. Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburaria under the Second Ruler who is only referred to as The Ruler, the novel

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Well, if you ever wanted to know more about Kenyan & African literature, film and madness, this is the site. We shall be hitting you with serious stuff, critiques, reviews and comments, as well as mad thoughts when the seriousness drives us to the edge of sanity. We got you in the cross hairs, click click boom!

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