Wuodha: My Journey from Kenya to these United States - Washington M. Osiro

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Résumé :
Washington introduces his best friends from school to his father whose shocking and harsh but eventually prescient response to the introduction reveals a post-independent Kenyan society that is markedly different from the one the son has hitherto shared with the friends. The father's brutal honesty leaves an indelible mark on the little boy's psyche and sets Washington off on a long and oftentimes arduous journey that takes him from the rural, familiar and safe albeit hardy surroundings of Apondo, Nyanza, Kenya to the sandy beaches of San Diego, Southern California, finally settling him in the world-famous climes of Silicon Valley, Northern California. Washington repeats a journey first undertaken by thousands in the 1700s: A journey that became an annual ritual for millions thereafter; all in their pursuit of their dream; their American Dream....

Biographie:
Washington Marlo Osiro was born in the village of Apondo, Nyanza Province, Kenya on December 20th, 1960. Malo Otieno Pickett-Osiro was born in Tracy, California, United States on April 23rd, 2003 to a Kenyan father and an African-American mother Jestina Lorraine Pickett. Mother, father and son all live in Northern California about an hour east of San Francisco. Malo's Amazing Adventures: Excitement Along The River is the first book in the series Malo's Amazing Adventures co-written by father and son. The book and series details the questions Malo has asked his father, his mother and step-family (father, step-brothers and step-sisters) over the years. Using the father's experiences from his childhood and teenage years in Kenya and both parents' adult lives in America, Malo's Kenyan father and American mother do their best to answer and affirm their son's trans-national and trans-racial questions on identity and sense of belonging. The mostly hilarious and endearing interactions and dynamics between the diverse cast of characters: mother, father, son and step-family offer a milieu and window into relationships that are as rich, textured and as beautiful as the human race.