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“I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.”

Quote by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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. more

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“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.”

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“Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.”

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“Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.”

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“Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.”

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