KIGALI, Rwanda, May 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- On any day in Africa, a multitude of sorrows can take shape, from one more person diagnosed with AIDS to a massacre in progress to famine and starvation. But the continent also brims with the light of strength and courage that emanates from its resilient people. In her new book, He Didn't Die Easy (now available through AuthorHouse), M.W. Kimani illuminates a stark landscape of despair with a brilliant ray of hope.
"He Didn't Die Easy is not just a collection of writings," explains Kimani. "It is a journey documented. It is the voice of a human trying to reason her way through the incredibly difficult circumstances that people go through every day in Africa."
Written as one long poem, expressed in separate pieces, the book conveys the individual's struggle to find meaning in a world that often has none to offer, and where tragedy and unfairness often defy human understanding. Kimani powerfully conveys what it means to be human in Africa.
The excerpt below illustrates the power in her words and her ability to make readers feel:
There were times,/ when there were cries of joyful children/ stuffing their stomachs with wild fruit,/ shouting in wild abandon-/ A profusion of exultant sounds.../ Shrieks of delight./ The rain has eaten the laughter away./ It pounds relentlessly.../ And the voices of cheer have been stilled./ The earth is nourished by the rain/ but our souls have withered./ We have wept too long,/ this endless rain/ that falls from our faces./ Now there is emptiness-/ Icy, cold silences, full of fear./ It rains suspicion,/ anger./ Pain-/ The rain has eaten the laughter away
Along with the evocative themes of poverty, war and violence, which stem from her experiences as a journalist in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, Kimani explores the meaning of friendship, joy and the search for identity. She gives voice to all who have been forced to come to terms with a world that is both beautiful and unforgiving.
A moving work written with eloquence and infused with emotion, He Didn't Die Easy delivers readers into the heart of unspeakable conditions, challenges them to think and inspires them to get involved.
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