Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorEven though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorI don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorEven if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorOne day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor