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    Still Sings the Nightbird

    By Philo Ikonya

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    Do we live inside the breasts of our mothers? In the mind and hearts of two women, indeed at their breasts a nation lives. The whole universe is in the lives of the people Philo writes about. They hear the song of the nightjar and it has meaning. Inside a mother s chest her daughter hangs like a silent unvenerated Pieta. Wakabi has eyes inside her breast. She sees from inside there. She knows this story well A country s literature is rooted in its history. But when history is full of hardship can authors create books pregnant with optimism? In Still Sings the Nightbird Philo Ikonya defies the currents of hopelessness to point her readers to a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel of nightmares. Out of the lonely cry of a nightjar, the rape of Kabi and indeed of Kenya, appears a light beaming into a brighter future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateJan 1, 1978
    ISBN9789956790227
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    Philo Ikonya

    Philo Ikonya is a Kenyan poet and novelist. She is known for speaking out against injustice and corruption. She has written extensively on governance, mass poverty and post-election violence in Kenya. She was arrested several times, and brutally in 2009, for speaking out. She is in exile in Norway since Dec. 2009. She is an avid blogger and journalist. She has been a teacher, lecturer and editor. She speaks Kiswahili, English, Spanish, Norwegian and understands Italian and French. Philo Ikonya is the author of This Bread of Peace, Out of Prison- Love Song, and Leading the Night.

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