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Prominent Kenyan Social-Justice Activist Takes his Fight to Parliament
Prominent Kenyan Social-Justice Activist Takes his Fight to Parliament

Boniface Mwangi, Kenya’s political firebrand and award-winning photojournalist, was thrust into the limelight in 2007 when his photos—documenting the horrors of his country’s post-election violence—were broadcast by news outlets around the world. Now, he runs for a seat in Parliament.

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WorkShayera Dark21 December 2017Activist, Boniface Mwangi, Elections, Kenya
Every Day is for the Thief|Teju Cole
Every Day is for the Thief|Teju Cole

“The window was one of many, the town was one. It was the only one, the one I left behind,” reads the epigraph in Teju Cole’s debut novel Every Day is for the Thief. Written like a travel diary, the story pieces together the unnamed narrator’s perception of Lagos after a long absence.

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Book ReviewShayera Dark12 December 2017every day is for the thief, teju cole, nigeria, travelogue, african literature
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