Kenya

Seasons in Hippoland, a novel written by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, was written in English and published by Seagull Books in 2022.

This is a slender book with some serious content. Tying together family, authoritarianism, radicalism, action, justice and storytelling.

"Whenever Westville banned a book, someone would smuggle a copy into Mexico 86. And that is how Mexico 86 became the fount of stories, factual or fictional or both.

My Aunt Sara was quite the storyteller. I did not know this when I met her. I did not even know I had an aunt by that name until my father told me that her place was going to be our place of exile."