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Of Ireland, its resemblance to Central Kenya and ‘Mûngû’

Are poverty and adversity some of the catalysts of great Irish writing? [Courtesy]

Why does Ireland produce such great writers, from James Joyce to William Butler Yeats? Remember the poem that introduces Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart?”

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