Failure of Kenyan autobiography to include sins committed by leaders

By ABENEA NDAGO

Classical Greek and Roman traditions viewed biography as a chance to embellish one’s name and character, but that was a clear ideal. Life writing has since changed accordingly over the centuries.  Memoirs are these days so explosive that – as we learnt from the experience of Peeling Back the Mask (2012) and Kidneys for the King (2013) – they can equally be flung at former friends when settling bitter scores.