Araali; One Hundred Years of Road In Nairobi - Carlo Luis Saio
Writer and Artist, born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. He studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia before completing a Master's degree in Poetry at the same University He then went onto walk 7500 km from Entebbe, Uganda to Cape Agulhas, South Africa. He has published two poetry collections: 'Araali; One Hundred Years of Road in Nairobi' and 'Lovesong of the Mantis and the Loerie. He is currently finishing a poetry collection on his walk entitled 'But the tracks of an ant'. sure as the steps, come the words
GENRE: Poetry and illustration
Blurb:
A journey into the intense wilderness of one of the world’s fastest blooming cities. A visual exploration of the city as body through the poem. A look into Nairobi and those that for a century, have sung its pulse and stomped its paths.