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On stage and in real life, ‘After 4.30’ shows nothing’s changed for women

Flipping through the pages of After 4.30, you’ll find yourself seated beside Emili, Lili, and Beti, women who feel eerily familiar. Women you might recognise. As you read, faces come to mind; some alive, some lost.

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After 4.30

Author:

David G. Maillu

Publisher:

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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