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Rethink forced migration to reflect today's reality

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Displaced persons camp outside their makeshift tents at Itare in Kuresoi South, Nakuru in September 2017. [Julius Chepkwony, Standard]

We launched Home and Exile on Thursday this week, at the Alliance Francaise, Nairobi. This work is a part of my modest contribution to scholarship, a plank in a probable 'Barrack oeuvre.'

As expected, I refrain from delving into the work. That belongs to critics. Some must love it. Others must not. The latter must go on a tear. Render it into pieces, fit only for the furnaces. That is how knowledge grows. There must be creators and admirers.

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