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- Author: Marjorie Kimani
- Publisher: Nsemia Inc.
- ISBN-10: 9966155155
- ISBN-13: 9789966155153
- Format: 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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So what inspired me to write The Airlift Orphan?
The seed from which this book germinated was the Tom Mboya-John F. Kennedy airlifts which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dozens of young bright students from Kenya were given a chance to further their education in the United States of America. A Kenyan visionary, politician, and trade unionist, Tom Joseph Mboya, had seen that an independent Kenya would need its own well-educated citizens to steer the new nation as most of the colonial government workers were leaving.
Kendi, the chief persona in the story, is the daughter of a man who left his pregnant lover behind and failed to come back. The travails that Kendi and her mother go through at the hands of a ruthless society form the real gist of this story.
The story is entirely fictional but is primarily based on a historical event that actually took place.
Marjory Kimani
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- Author: Marjorie Kimani
- Publisher: Nsemia Inc.
- ISBN-10: 9966155155
- ISBN-13: 9789966155153
- Format: 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
So what inspired me to write The Airlift Orphan?
The seed from which this book germinated was the Tom Mboya-John F. Kennedy airlifts which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dozens of young bright students from Kenya were given a chance to further their education in the United States of America. A Kenyan visionary, politician, and trade unionist, Tom Joseph Mboya, had seen that an independent Kenya would need its own well-educated citizens to steer the new nation as most of the colonial government workers were leaving.
Kendi, the chief persona in the story, is the daughter of a man who left his pregnant lover behind and failed to come back. The travails that Kendi and her mother go through at the hands of a ruthless society form the real gist of this story.
The story is entirely fictional but is primarily based on a historical event that actually took place.
Marjory Kimani
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