{"product_id":"mwakenya-real-or-phantom-subtitle-a-journalists-harrowing-experience-in-the-moi-regime-paperback","title":"Mwakenya: Real or Phantom; subtitle: A Journalist's Harrowing Experience in the Moi Regime - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAchira Jimmy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Mwakenya: Real or Phantom?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, is Jimmy Achira's persecution experience Daniel Arap Moi's Kenya in 1980s. The \u003ci\u003eDaily Nation\u003c\/i\u003e captured best the nebulous phenomenon called \u003ci\u003eMwakenya\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Mwakenya remained a chimera to the Kenyan media. Reporters knew no \"Mwakenya\" officials and received no calls, manifestos or press releases from them. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"There was no known office location, or telephone or fax numbers. Everything that came to the media house, and appeared as trial evidence, was from the Moi-KANU government. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"The seditious documents produced in court were always photo-copies, never originals. It was not only university lecturers, students who were victims of the security dragnet-civil servants and journalists too, were picked up\". -\u003ci\u003eDaily Nation, Sept. 20th 1987\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e In the 1980s, in Moi's regime, it was anathema to be termed \u003ci\u003e\"Mwakenya\"\u003c\/i\u003e for that would pronounce arrest, torture and jail. It was one of the saddest chapters in the nation's history; people talked in hushed voices, looking over their shoulders to see who was listening; when people worried what they were seen reading for it could be \"seditious\". \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Jimmy Achira, a journalist who found himself in the \u003ci\u003eMwakenya\u003c\/i\u003e dragnet, chronicles his experiences in \u003ci\u003eMwakenya: Real or Phantom?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The book is not a history of \u003ci\u003eMwakenya\u003c\/i\u003e but a personal account of encounter with oppression in Moi's Kenya. The real story of \u003ci\u003eMwakenya\u003c\/i\u003e would be told by historians. It is unfortunate that instruments like the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission have yet to unearth the atrocities against Kenyan people; atrocities perpetuated in the name of state security; and law and order. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat others say: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e \"It is important that the experiences such as Achira's be told for the sake of history and posterity. The history of those dark days should be taught in schools, alongside tales of heroic struggles such as that of \u003ci\u003e Mau Mau\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Many Kenyans who enjoy the fruits of \"freedom\" under multi-party democracy know little about the suffering many faced and sacrifices made to achieve the current freedom.\" - Gershom Otachi Bw'Omanwa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e \"The Nyaro era of the 1980s was a time of horror in the history of human rights in Kenya. In early 1986 the crackdown on those Kenyans perceived to have dissenting views about the government had been put in motion. Under the guise of rooting out subversives, particularly referred to as \"Mwakenya\" (\u003ci\u003e Muungano wa Wakenya\u003c\/i\u003e) the police unleashed such a reign of terror that a wide cross-section of people's lives were destroyed. \"\u003c\/i\u003e - Dr Carey Francis Onyango, Lecturer and HUman Rights Activist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e \"Political imprisonment was common in the \u003ci\u003eNyayo\u003c\/i\u003e era in which Moi held Kenya in a vice-like grip. Now, the untold can be told. Stories, as Jimmy Achira's, help us understand those days and the price many Kenyans paid for freedoms enjoyed today. \"\u003c\/i\u003e - Dr Matunda Nyanchama, ICT Professional and Publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e About the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAchira was born at Bosiango, West Mugirango, Nyamira and went to Bosiango Primary School, Taranganya and Nyansabakwa High Schools. He taught at Mborogo Secondary School before entering journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe has worked for \u003ci\u003e Target\/ Lengo, East African Standard, Nation \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKenya Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Others are \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Revie \u003c\/i\u003e. In April 1995, he incorporated \u003ci\u003e Rural Media Services Limited \u003c\/i\u003e under which he published regional rural monthly newspaper, \u003ci\u003eThe Western Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-edited, with Tom Amoro, \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Gusii Politics 1997\u003c\/i\u003e, published \u003ci\u003eWhat Next after 1997 General Elections in Gusii?\u003c\/i\u003e Presently, he is media consultant\/publisher and working on \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist 1979 - 1999\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47786028794077,"sku":"9781926906027","price":57.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/q9DxvxXX0I9781926906027.webp?v=1776160899","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/mwakenya-real-or-phantom-subtitle-a-journalists-harrowing-experience-in-the-moi-regime-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}