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Dr. Kavirondo Part 1

Your mother is going to need your protection desperately when your father dies. Your useless Uncle Okelo has a dangerous design to inherit your mother at whatever cost. You know how much the Luo culture has been corrupted by materially oriented persons. Okelo is going to cause chaos because I know that only over your mother’s dead body would she accept being inherited by such a skunk.

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AKÉ ARTS AND BOOK FESTIVAL

Date:

November 20, 2025

From Date:

November 20, 2025

To Date:

November 22, 2025

The Aké Arts & Book Festival brings together writers, poets, musicians, actors, filmmakers, artists and thinkers to celebrate creativity, network and share stories. This year, the festival, themed "Reclaiming Truth", will be held in Lagos.

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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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