By Benson Eluma
Title: Prisoners of Jebs
Author: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher: Saros International Publishers
Number of pages: 178
Year of publication: 1988
Category: Fiction
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Prisoners of Jebs does not spare anybody or anything. In the finest tradition of...
By Benson Eluma
Title: Song of Lawino
Author: Okot p’Bitek
Publisher: East African Publishing House
Number of pages: 216
Year of publication: 1966
Category: Poetry
‘A popular event, yes. A great event? Yes. Since there is literary drought’. – Taban lo Liyong
‘But the text exists as linguistic, as historical, as...
