New Fiction Gives Hope to the Homeless and the Internally Displaced
By ComMattersKenya Press A book that seeks to give hope to the internally displaced people has been published. Though the book, titled From Terror to Hope and targeting children (10-18) and youth (19-24) reads like a re-enactment of the post-December 2007 election violence in Kenya, writer Ogova Ondego insists it is a work of fiction and that "any resemblance to persons, events or localities is coincidental." This story is not only entirely a work of fiction, he says, but "the names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of my own imagination or used fictitiously." But many are unlikely to buy this disclaimer or poetic license as the setting of the book bears uncanny resemblance to the the cataclysmical events that rocked Kenya between December 2007 and March 2008 after a disputed presidential election in the country pitted president Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity against those of prime minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movemen...