Airlift Orphan
Paperback 296 pages English 24-Aug-21
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So what inspired me to write The Airlift Orphan? The seed from which this book germinated was the Tom Mboya-John F. Kennedy airlifts which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dozens of young bright students from Kenya were given a chance to further their education in the United States of America. A Kenyan visionary, politician, and trade unionist, Tom Joseph Mboya, had seen that an independent Kenya would need its own well-educated citizens to steer the new nation as most of the colonial government workers were leaving. Kendi, the chief persona in the story, is the daughter of a man who left his pregnant lover behind and failed to come back. The travails that Kendi and her mother go through at the hands of a ruthless society form the real gist of this story.The story is entirely fictional but is primarily based on a historical event that actually took place.Marjory Kimani
- Author:
- Marjory Kimani
- Publisher:
- Nsemia Inc.
- Publication Date:
- 24-Aug-21
- Number of pages:
- 296 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 9966155155
- ISBN-13:
- 9789966155153