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Seeing how the book club fit into the broader constellation of Nairobi's literary scene, and how this was a product of so much collaboration, was surreal.

— Neema Githere

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I think that's what makes this model so powerful,You can show people that it's okay to arrive not knowing everything.

I feel this Pan-African legacy reviving in Nairobi. It existed in decentralized ways, but now we have physical spaces, and those are still needed.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

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Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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