Biographers add rich footnote to our history

The triple release, last month, of Jeremiah Kiereini's "A Daunting Journey", Bishop Gitari's posthumous "Troubled but not destroyed" and Jeff Koinange's "Through My African eyes" is another milestone in Kenya's growing tradition of memoir writing.

For decades, Kenya's literally scene was starved of any first hand elucidation of the events that shaped Kenya. After Jaramogi's autobiography "Not yet Uhuru" released in 1968, Kenya went into an autobiographical desert until all of a sudden, every other month celebrates a release of yet another expose of the early years of Kenya as told by those who shaped it.