Scholar Akinyi

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[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@Nyamisa_Chela @bonifacemwangi And if you ever want to read the experiences of children during the PEV, buy this book from @bennetowuonda and @Nuria store.

Thank you, Boniface, for freezing these. We will always remember.

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@Mburu_reads A Little Life is a tad too sad a book. You might take breaks depending on your tolerance levels. Grow your lemons first

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@tega_ebi There are mercies only you can show yourself

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@mwakawhat 😅 Me and you

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@reen_thee_only @Mburu_reads Read this

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@dimpleysmile @maunde08 @Mburu_reads Thank you so much, @dimpleysmile for the indepth exposition. I appreciate this big time!

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@CessAkinyi_ @Mburu_reads Thank you, Cess!

[Aseka @dimpleysmile]

@__Scho The book also reaches back to Kenya’s broader political history, including the 2005 referendum, so it becomes more than a story about the PEV; it’s also an engagement with Kenya’s political memory. The books are there. Please, we can't say that these stories don't exist.
@__Scho

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@WanjiruNjogu02 @Mburu_reads If you were young, you will love this. It is PEV narrated from the perspective of children
From @NuriaStore

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@Toni_Producer @Mburu_reads Here!

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

The book!

[Aseka @dimpleysmile]

@maunde08 @Mburu_reads @__Scho ....so you get to interrogate the effects of that time on children who were simply trying to live ordinary lives. A review describes them as three children whose lives before the elections are full of ordinary childhood concerns before everything changes in Naivasha. 4/

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@ReallyNowBro @Mburu_reads Here, read this one!

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@recheallizzy @Mburu_reads Here!

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

I raise you Hop Skip and Jump!

[Michael Asari @Mburu_reads]

When I'm reading Half of a Yellow Sun, I wonder why there aren't Kenyan stories about and around the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence
Nigerians wrote about the Biafra war from here to Timbuktu
Or these stories exist and I've not discovered them - put me on then

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@Mburu_reads Here, I wrote a book. Please read this sometime.

You can find it through @NuriaStore or directly through me

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

@marymararo388 Everything by Austen. Then jump to the Bronte sisters.
Enjoy, dear upcoming Bibliophile

[Johnnie @_onsase]

@marymararo388 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Arguably one of the best opening

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

To confront the inevitability of my mortality is to come to the realization, denial and, ultimately, acceptance that I will leave behind books unread. Oh, piece o' literature, 'd you make a bed of roses upon where my frail, breathless body rests eternally?

Such tragedy, Scho!

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

my only issue is people aren’t reading enough to be writing all these substacks.

[Scholar Akinyi @__Scho]

Charles Dickens and his 'It was the best of times...' could never🤣
Oh, to be alive, a writer, editor, linguist and creative at such a time!

[OG @27Don__]

100% ChatGPT. Notice the constant parallelism and the rhythmic/mirrored phrasing?
“it is not just a company collapsing. It’s a mirror reflecting
This is not about mismanagement. It’s about survival in an economy
The administration of MotorHub is not an isolated event. It’s a warning shot.
It’s time for the government to stop governing through fear and start governing through foresight”

[Lolwe @Lolwe_]

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