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Key ideas from the book
- Meja and Maina arrive in the city hoping their high school diplomas will lead to employment.
- Their failure to find work brings them into street life alongside other unemployed and homeless youth.
- The novel depicts unemployment and homelessness among young people in Kenya.
- After being brutally separated, Meja and Maina meet again in prison.
- Readers interested in Kenyan fiction and African literature can explore these social issues through a 1973 novel.
About Kill Me Quick by Meja Mwangi
Published in 1973, Meja Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick follows Meja and Maina as they arrive in a Kenyan city expecting their high school diplomas to help them find work and build better lives. Unable to secure jobs, they become part of a wider population of unemployed and homeless young people living on the streets.
After a brutal separation, the two meet again behind prison bars. The novel offers readers an African literary account of youth unemployment and homelessness in Kenya, and may interest those studying Kenyan fiction and social issues in literature.
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