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‘Yes criticism’ has let down Kenyan literature and we’re the poor for it

 

NAIROBI: The gradual opening up between agents in the literary trade might yield a proper harvest for Kenyan Literature sometime in the distant future (I certainly do not include in it the current thinking which equates literature to a certain nocturnal – well, even diurnal – activity where the publisher and the editor are considered a pair of wonder-drug pills).

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