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A witty tale on romance, immorality and the wages of crime

A witty tale on romance, immorality and the wages of crime Title: The Minister's Daughter Author: Mwangi Ruheni Publisher: East African Educational Publishers (Spear Books) Year:1975( Reprinted nineteen times ) Reviewer: Kitui Wakape Going by recent media reports where high school teens have been caught red handed; high on alcohol and drugs while engaging in ungodly acts, one may wonder why today's teens are so obsessed with misbehaviour, especially during holidays. But a more poignant question would be: where do parents go wrong? In this novel written four decades ago, Ruheni seems to provide answers albeit with a humorous touch. It rings with truth, reflecting the current Kenyan society way of life. The author successfully manages to weave a witty narrative that brings to the fore issues of teenage love and pregnancy, materialism, religious hypocrisy and moral decay. Ruheni does this through Jane Njeri, a timid girl raised by staunch christian parents. Her father...

Tracking The Scent of My Mother

Writer tackles incest, betrayal and murder in outstanding novella Title: Tracking The Scent of My Mother Author: Muthoni Garland Publisher: StoryMoja Year: 2007 Reviewer: Kitui Wakape If you've ever had doubts on whether Kenya has great novelists or not, then you may have to consider Muthoni Garland's novella Tracking The Scent of My Mother. This book was a shortlist of the prestigious Caine Prize in 2006 as a manuscript and was completed in Naivasha during a Caine Prize African Writers' Workshop. Set in the rural Mukuruweini and Ithanga, Garland's story looks at the brutalised life of Scholastica who was born into a polygamous household with her senior mother having five daughters and her mother having two. She develops a certain bond with her mother that she guards jealously as they work the fields and do house chores together. It is this jealousy that leads her in killing her 14-year-old half sister at a rickety bridge over river Ragati. She was just nine...

What is a Blog? 2023 Beginners Guide

What is a Blog? 2023 Beginners Guide If you spend most of your time on the internet, you must have come across the terms blog , blogging , and blogger . You might or you might not have a clue as to what those terms mean. That said, the questions on your mind must be numerous. 1. What is a blog? 2. What is blogging and how does it work? 3. What exactly does a blogger do? 4. Do bloggers make money? 5. How do I start a blog in 2021? In addition to the above, you might also want to know more information about blogs, blogging, and bloggers. 1. Examples of a blog 2. Blogging sites and platforms 3. Types of blogs 4. Popular blogs But first things first. 1. What is a blog? Defined as an online journal or diary or a mini website that exists on the wide world web, a blog covers one topic or more and is written by an individual or a group of people who are called bloggers. In a blog, the information is displayed in a certain order. Here, the most recent published information appears f...

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