By December 2007, Yvonne Owuor had spent two years writing her debut novel, Dust. But the chilling reality of politics prevented her from completing the story.
During this period, 1,200 people died, and 500,000 fled their homes, in a violent upheaval that followed the national elections in Kenya.
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