Still Sings the Nightbird - Ikonya, Philo (Langaa RPCIG, 2013)
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Part 1; Forethought; Valley; Films; City; School bathroom; Vision; Bed; Home to breastfeed; Jugus; Cracks of loneliness; Whose baby is this?; A girl like you; The priest and the cobbler; Cockcrow; Oh, what a night!; Coffee bushes; Aaaa Hura Kissi!; Nostalgia; Super cleaner; A blind brother; Another Saturday; Part 2 -- New Ways; Limuru; Life; Coffee laced with Poison; A Call; Dreams have wings; Kill your heart; Arrival; Darkness and light; The Fire Brigade; Evening; Part 3; Why do you strike me?; Alienated; Kamkunji!; Jaah and I; Leave; Lesbian; Aborted
Comfort my people!Wam says No; Regeneration; Wise and beautiful; The stars are shining; Another world; Hurting eyes; I'll be watching you; Bird Morning; Power; Wind through branches; The sun of our Life; Shinda School parents' day; Nairobi to stay; Free verse; Tension; A football player is buried; Time up; We shall return; Moon-sun; Back cover
Do we live inside the breasts of our mothers? In the mind and hearts of two women, indeed at their breasts a nation lives. The whole universe is in the lives of the people Philo writes about. They hear the song of the nightjar and it has meaning. Inside a motherís chest her daughter hangs like a silent unvenerated Pieta.ìWakabi has eyes inside her breast. She sees from inside there. She knows this story wellÖî A countryís literature is rooted in its history. But when history is full of hardship can authors create books pregnant with optimism? In Still Sings the Nightbird Philo Ikonya defies th
Keywords: Hope / Fiction; Mothers / Fiction; FICTION / General