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Parliament of Owls: Book compared to Kenyan House

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Parliament of Owls

Some people see an eerie similarity between Kenya's current political situation and Adipo Sidang's Parliament of Owls.

I see a parable, not at all ahead of its time, but of what has always been: a sort of universal script from which we borrow every so often as a country (albeit with periodical breaks of deceptive political sanity).

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