Summary Of Dust By Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor - 1110 Words

Corruption in Kenya â€Å"Dust†, is a really powerful novel that talks about corruption that created crisis in Kenya from 1960s to 21st century, written by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. It tells a story about post-colonial Kenya through two families, Oganda and Bolton family. It centers on the connections between Oganda family and Bolton family in rural area of Kenya. This book portraits a really strong movement of those family and their involvement in the late 1960s. Furthermore, the author goes deeper in detail later throughout the book that explains the tragedies that caused the political-social order’s breakdown and the assassination of the independence leader. The author s writing style is uniquely compelling. She uses a lot of words and native phrases that carries the harshness of people’s lives in Kenya, along with showing the richness of Kenyan geography and society to the readers. Last paper I talked about the problem of dictatorship, but on this paper I will be more focusing on the true causes of the wars and crises in African countries, corruption. I strongly believe that corruption was the true cause of crisis and killing in Kenya as well as other African countries. This totally created a disaster to the country as a whole along with people’s well beings. Apparently, Kenyan’s leader and government were very money oriented and more materialistic. When anyone becomes more of money oriented than moral sense. It would totally cause them to lose the