Lara Pawson, cur­rently a writer in res­id­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Wit­water­srand, has a chapter out in a new book edited by Kenyan author, Rasna Warah. Don’t judge it by the cover (unless, of course, you really LOVE the cover). Here’s what she sent me:

It’s a very read­able antho­logy fea­tur­ing some of East Africa’s best-known writers, thinkers and “devel­op­ment­al­ists”, such as Binyavanga Wainaina (who reg­u­larly fea­tures in the Mail & Guard­ian) and … er, an Eng­lish woman from East Lon­don. My own chapter ori­gin­ally appeared in Rad­ical Philo­sophy (a journal also worth read­ing and avail­able at www.radicalphilosophy.com).

Reviewed in The East African by Stephen Part­ing­ton, the book was described as “an antho­logy that brings together writers from the region whose essays enable a kal­eido­scopic view of devel­op­ment­al­ism in East Africa, its dis­con­tents, its hubris, its smug­ness, its abil­ity to kill through genu­ine and well-meant kindness.”

If you rep­res­ent a media organ­isa­tion, please write to Dean Shah at dshah [AT] author­house [dot] co [dot] uk for a review copy, and send a copy of that review to Ras­nah Warah at grasp [AT] nbi [dot] isp­kenya [dot] com.

If you want to sup­port sales of the book, please for­ward this mes­sage to oth­ers. The book will be cheaper to buy online than through retail out­lets. Go to www.authorhouse.com.