Bob Collymore - Washington M. Osiro

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Résumé :
This book is as much about Robert William Collymore, the man many Kenyans fell in love with, as it is about a Kenyan society that seemingly saw only what was good about him. Bob Collymore: A Short Impactful Life(?) is the dichotomy between the ten years that shaped the national narrative about a man - who lived for sixty-one years. It is evidence of a phenomenon Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach created back in the early 1900s. The phenomenon or test is based on Klecksography, Rorschach's favorite game as a child. It is a projective tool used in psychoanalysis. Using inkblots or klecks (in German), therapists seek to understand their patients' thinking based on how they interpret respective inkblots. In Collymore's life and death, Kenyans projected what they THOUGHT of the man's ENTIRE life onto the last ten years of his life - at the helm of Safaricom and going by the media coverage after his death, Kenyans THOUGHT very highly of Robert William Collymore - even though they only knew of him and about him for a mere one-sixth of his life. It is why the subtitle of the book A Short Impactful Life (?) has a question mark i.e. (?): The country's reaction to Collymore' death belied the totality of the man's six-decade-long life - and underscores a disconnect I am trying to reconcile - thus far without success.

Biographie:
The father-son duo of Washington M. Osiro and Malo O. Pickett-Osiro team up for their latest global adventure. Born on April 23, 2003 in Tracy, California to an American mother and Kenyan father, Malo developed a keen awareness of the differences - obvious and not-so-obvious, especially between father and son that only increased as he grew older. It is this awareness that prompts the little boy's probing and insightful questions; questions that form the basis of this series of books. Malo lives about 60miles east of San Francisco where he travels freely between his mom's house and that of his dad. The 6th grader is not as obsessed with LEGO? or MineCraft? as he was when the first and second books were written! He has two stepsisters: Kiersten and Genea; two step-brothers: Andrew and Tyler and a step-father: Steve. This is the pair's 3rd book and the second in the Malo's Amazing Adventures! Series. Also co-written by the pair is Malo's father's memoir titled WUODHA: My Journey from Kenya to these United States and Malo's Amazing Adventures! Excitement Along the River. Both books are published by FriesenPress.