Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

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

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

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

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.