Description
8vo, pp. 219, [1]. Original wrappers printed in pink and purple. Wrappers a little rubbed and creased, spine and edge of rear wrapper sunned.
After 4:30.
- Nairobi: Comb Books 1976
£65
Notes
Author and publisher David Maillu set up Comb Books in 1972, to publish his own work, following rejections from Kenya's traditional publishing houses, and over a period of six years produced a series of books dealing with urban Africa, often broaching controversial subjects- his books were banned in Tanzania in 1976 'on the grounds of their often cheap morality' (Zell, Bundy & Coulon, 'A New Reader's Guide to African Literature', 1983, p. 412). 'After 4:30' is a linked series of poems chronicling a single mother's experiences with sex work. Although dated 1974, the adverts for Maillu's Kommon Man (here misspelled Common Man) and a price of 15 East African Shillings mark this as an early reprint from a couple of years later.
