Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born in 1968) 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".
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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,”
- 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.
