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  • David Maillu’s “After 4:30” to make June 28 return

    David Maillu’s “After 4:30” to make June 28 return

    David Maillu’s legendary book After 4:30 will be reintroduced to the world with an event in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Kenyan writer and publisher David Maillu’s 1974 book After 4:30 unravels the problems of urban housewives, office secretaries, and sex workers. Told in African traditional poetic or song-style, provocative and bluntly-critical it…