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Summit served rude awakening on real danger

Barrack Muluka

By Barrack Muluka | Sep 09, 2023

**President William Ruto speaks during the Africa Climate Summit at the KICC in Nairobi on September 6, 2023.** [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

In 1953, John Wyndham published a frightful story titled The Kraken Wakes. Borrowing from Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Kraken", Wyndham's book is a horrific end of times narrative.

It speaks of Planet Earth under assault by frightful creatures from the deep sea. Earlier, in 1951, Wyndham had issued The Day of the Triffids, in which people on Planet Earth are blinded by poisonous rain, caused by creatures from outer space.

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