Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorKenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorIt may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
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