Mwende Kyalo is a writer, a social activist and an environmentalist. She loves reviewing books with a special focus on African reads and has a blog on the same that can be found here ( mwendekyalobookreviews.wordpress.com). Her work has been published on Ukoo Critique and Nation Africa.
This is a book about celebrating ourselves, acknowledging where we come from, crying at our pain and laughing at the hilarious moments. It is a story about our rocky rough times and the smooth silk moments stored in our hearts: Rough Silk.
Abdulrazak Gurnah does not just give his readers a book to read but he bestows upon them a journey to undertake. A journey into a people whose ways of life, whose histories, are unknown to outsiders.
