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Maillu: I influenced Ngugi’s decision to write in Gikuyu

Maillu, who refers to himself as the president of African Spirituality, says that 'Ka, the Holy Book of Neter', is the African answer to the Bible.

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After 4.30

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David G. Maillu

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Mvua Press

After 4:30 rocketed the now renown author, David G. Maillu, to become the most widely read, controversial and humorous writer in East Africa. Using poetry, the author writes a provocative and bluntly-critical book that is also highly entertaining. The epic is set in the post-independence era of the early 1970s and craftily unravels the problems of housewives, office secretaries, sex workers, and o

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