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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer renowned for her profound insights into the African continent and her rich imagination. Her works often explore issues of identity, cultural conflict, and gender, and have won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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Famous Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Quotes

“We lamented the fact that Kenyans are on the whole, so unchic.”

Kenya Kenyans

Book:Weight of Whispers

Source: Weight of Whispers

“Now, at Balafon, the exiles were silent, to accommodate the ghosts of saints: Bolikango…Kasavubu..Lumumba…Kalondji…Tshombe…”

Kenya Rwandan Genocide Fallen Heroes

Book:Weight of Whispers

Source: Weight of Whispers

“Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.”

People Way Feels Country Character Turns Violent Turn-on Kenya

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.”

Healing Land Capacity Immense Kenya

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.”

Needs Chance Ghost Kenya

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.”

Thinking Trying Country Seems Dies Disappear Phenomenon Offense Kenya Amnesia

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”

Reason Silence Written Stones Hills Odd Immense Muse Silence Is Invited Delighted Gallery Kenya Indebted Procession Carver

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 29

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