Tag: Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges
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Ciku Kimeria teases new novel in Short Story Day interview
Ciku Kimeria has given an interview with Short Story Day Africa where she speaks about a variety of issues include what compels her to write, lessons from self-publishing as well teasing her new novel. Ciku Kimeria burst onto the literary scene with her book Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges in 2013 which I have reviewed…
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A review of Ciku Kimeria’s Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges
Book: Of Goats and Poisoned OrangesAuthor: Ciku KimeriaPublisher: SelfYear of publication: 2013Number of pages: 127Genre: Drama Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges is the debut novel of Kenyan writer Ciku Kimeria. The book tells the tale of a married couple Njogu, his wife Wambui, and Nyambura the mistress/side dish/mpango wa kando/small house/add your term of mistress…
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Ciku Kimeria, Ndiritu Wahome play to packed Goethe Nairobi
The Goethe Institut in Nairobi was packed to the rafters for the second edition of their “Conversations with African writers” series. The first in the series happened a few months ago with Kinyanjui Kombani being moderated by our favourite actor/teacher/playwright John Sibi-Okumu. Last Thursday early evening the authors on stage were Ciku Kimeria and Ndiritu…
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Ciku Kimeria for Ghanaian launch
Kenyan writer Ciku Kimeria is one of the new novelists to watch on the continent. Her weirdly titled novel “Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges” is described as the tumultuous marriage of a middle-aged Kenyan power couple living in the hills of Mount Kenya as it is told by different parties in their life. After a…
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Ciku Kimeria launches ‘Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges’ in Kampala
Ciku Kimeria is a Kenyan writer who exploded onto the literature scene last year with her book “Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges.” The book has been blurbed thus; “It is generally accepted that there are only two possible outcomes to the flipping of a coin – heads or tails. In reality, there is also a…