Following a phenomenally successful 2021 for African writers, this year is also shaping up as another bumper harvest season. Gail Collins reviews works from seasoned pens as well as those fresh to publication
Okwiri Oduor’s “Things They Lost” joins Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “House of Rust” and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea” as one of three recently published novels by Kenyan women that place Kenyan girls at the center of a magical quest.