The author handles them tenderly, using his characters to lay bare the humanity that existed and persisted beneath the ugly layers of racism and classism in colonial Kenya.
“Is it wrong to give food to those who have nothing to eat? To help persons who are injured?” laments Gosar, the main character in “Active in the Furtherance”.
Title: Station Master, Eburru and Other Stories Author: Pheroze Nowrojee Year of Publication: 2021 Pages: 157 Reviewed by: Faith Oneya
In Station Master, Eburru and Other Stories, lawyer, poet and author Pheroze Nowrojee paints an intimate portrait of the colonialism experienced in Kenya through the eyes of ordinary men and women, at a time when the “Kenyan colony was roiling with undercurrents of discomfort, disaffection and outright disobedience”.
