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Charles Mangua
Son of Woman by Charles Mangua
Buy Son of Woman by Charles Mangua — a wickedly funny and groundbreaking Kenyan novel following the roguish anti-hero Dodge Kiunya through the bars, beds, and back alleys of post-independence Nairobi.
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Son of Woman introduced Dodge Kiunya — the illegitimate son of a prostitute who hustles his way through post-independence Kenya with boundless cunning and zero remorse. The novel was a sensation on publication in 1971, becoming one of the fastest-selling books in Kenyan history because it spoke in an entirely new voice: irreverent, urban, sexually frank, and darkly comic. Mangua captures the moral ambiguity of the newly independent African city — a world where the old rules have dissolved but no new ones have replaced them — through the eyes of a man who has never had the luxury of respectability. The book was controversial for its frank depictions of sex and its casual misogyny, but it also represented a genuine breakthrough in Kenyan popular fiction, creating a template for urban African storytelling that influenced generations of writers.
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Son of Woman by Charles Mangua
Son of Woman introduced Dodge Kiunya — the illegitimate son of a prostitute who hustles his way through post-independence Kenya with boundless cunning and zero remorse. The novel was a sensation on publication in 1971, becoming one of the fastest-selling books in Kenyan history because it spoke in an entirely new voice: irreverent, urban, sexually frank, and darkly comic. Mangua captures the moral ambiguity of the newly independent African city — a world where the old rules have dissolved but no new ones have replaced them — through the eyes of a man who has never had the luxury of respectability. The book was controversial for its frank depictions of sex and its casual misogyny, but it also represented a genuine breakthrough in Kenyan popular fiction, creating a template for urban African storytelling that influenced generations of writers.
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