![]() Langaa, not set up for monetary profit-making, is supported by founding members and other contributors, financial grants and efforts of volunteers. This is achieved by conducting research, providing training in research and writing, and publishing and promoting African scholarship and creative writing. The mission of Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group (Langaa RPCIG) is to contribute to the cultural development and renaissance of Africa. Out of the lonely cry of a nightjar, the rape of Kabi and indeed of Kenya, appears a light beaming into a brighter future. But when history is full of hardship can authors create books pregnant with optimism? In Still Sings the Nightbird Philo Ikonya defies the currents of hopelessness to point her readers to a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel of nightmares. She knows this story well…” A country’s literature is rooted in its history. Inside a mother’s chest her daughter hangs like a silent unvenerated Pieta.“Wakabi has eyes inside her breast. They hear the song of the nightjar and it has meaning. ![]() ![]() The whole universe is in the lives of the people Philo writes about. Do we live inside the breasts of our mothers? In the mind and hearts of two women, indeed at their breasts a nation lives. ![]()
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