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"On the map she looked at, there was no place marker for Pate Island. No color brown or green to suggest her own existence within the sea. So she wanted to know about places that could be rendered invisible.”"
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer who is the author of novels, short stories and essays. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers". Yvonne is also the co-founder of The Macondo Literary Festival ,a non-profit organization that seeks to organize regular literary festivals that promote literature and authors of Africa and from the Global.
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"Ayaana would learn that there seemed to be no absolutes in the world, only codes and questions and a guarantee of storms."
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"We know, nyara, that to name the unnamable is a curse [...] Even if you plant another story into silence, see, the buried thing returns to ask for its blood from the living."
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"He would learn to always stoop to meet her eyes. She expected this: eye-to-eye conversations. She needed to see everything his soul suggested."
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"Ebbing: disappearing, becoming of the sea. Flowing: returning, rolling on the sands, returned to earth."
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"“There are presumptions, in the world as it is now framed, of who the worthy victim is and who merits the power of full witness,”"
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