45 min.
The Havoc of Choice - with Wanjiru Koinange Baraza Sessions
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- Kunst
Baraza Curator Christine Mungai is in conversation with Wanjiru Koinange, author of the novel The Havoc of Choice, a gripping story of a Kenyan family set during the turmoil of the 2007 general election. This week marks 10 years since the promulgation of a new and progressive constitution, a document that was the product of decades of activism, for which the final push was the fall-out from that 2007 election. In the years since, the constitution has faced a steady and insidious undermining, and for Koinange, it's not just a legal document that has been under assault - it is memory itself. Koinange is also the co-founder of Book Bunk, an initiative to restore public libraries in Nairobi, and reverse the years of neglect that relegate such public spaces to irrelevance in a brutally neoliberal and grasping society.
Baraza Curator Christine Mungai is in conversation with Wanjiru Koinange, author of the novel The Havoc of Choice, a gripping story of a Kenyan family set during the turmoil of the 2007 general election. This week marks 10 years since the promulgation of a new and progressive constitution, a document that was the product of decades of activism, for which the final push was the fall-out from that 2007 election. In the years since, the constitution has faced a steady and insidious undermining, and for Koinange, it's not just a legal document that has been under assault - it is memory itself. Koinange is also the co-founder of Book Bunk, an initiative to restore public libraries in Nairobi, and reverse the years of neglect that relegate such public spaces to irrelevance in a brutally neoliberal and grasping society.
45 min.