A new book on Kenya : 'Red Soil and Roasted Maize'

 Rasna Warah is an Indian Kenyan journalist and thinker.
She regularly writes  for the Daily Nation newspaper.

'Red Soil and Roasted Maize' is a selection of the Kenyan writer’s "most poignant, introspective and satirical articles, columns and essays" according to her publisher.

Her goal is to provide snapshots and analyses of events that have shaped Kenyans’ lives and dreams in the last decade, from the turbulent transition to democracy in 2002 to a flawed election in 2007 that had a deep impact on Kenya’s political, economic and social landscape.

She "candidly deciphers and describes the perils of growing ethnic chauvinism and corruption in an increasingly polarised nation and examines her own life as a writer in one of Africa’s most diverse and unequal societies".

Here is her latest article in the Nation:

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Wearing+earrings+hardly+more+ridiculous+than+donning+a+wig+/-/440808/1179382/-/6bxiinz/-/index.html


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Details:

Red Soil and Roasted Maize

Selected essays and articles on contemporary Kenya By Rasna Warah  
Published: May 2011 
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W) 
Pages: 200 
ISBN: 9781456777241