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.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

I 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.