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The Havoc of choice
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Koinange, Wanjiru |
| author2 | Coovadia, Imraan |
| author_browse | Coovadia, Imraan Koinange, Wanjiru |
| author_facet | Coovadia, Imraan Koinange, Wanjiru |
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| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
| publishDateRange | 2015 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12845 The Havoc of choice Koinange, Wanjiru Coovadia, Imraan English Includes bibliographical references. Kavata knows one thing to be true: when it comes to politics, there is no such thing as holy ground. So when she starts a family of her own, she does everything possible to distance herself from her unscrupulous father, and strives to raise her children as honestly and modestly as she possibly can. When her father, Honorable Muli, retires from government claiming that he would like to spend more time with his grandchildren, Kavata indulges him. She allows him to weasel his way back into her life hopeful that her children might have the relationship with her father that she never had. By the time she realizes what Honorable Muli is really up to, it is too late. He has already persuaded Ngugi, Kavata’s husband, to contest the upcoming election for the same seat that he himself held for sixteen years. It’s election time and for a fleeting moment, Kenyans can once again taste sweet power as they make their choices at the polls. In the days leading to the election, Kavata is forced to make a different, more drastic kind of decision; one with repercussions much greater than she could have imagined. The Havoc of Choice is a story about family, politics and journeying through a fractured country in a delicate time. Based on events around the historical election of 2007, the book follows the lives of Kavata and her family at a time when their country was going through one hundred days of violence, shortly after the poll results were announced. 2015-05-26T14:07:38Z 2015-05-26T14:07:38Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12845 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The Havoc of choice |
| title_full | The Havoc of choice |
| title_fullStr | The Havoc of choice |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Havoc of choice |
| title_short | The Havoc of choice |
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| topic | English |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12845 |
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