BROKEN TRADITION

This is a fusion of African and Specifically Kenyan ( kalenjin subtribe) high culture, popular culture, and "ancient" tales of a young girls' love story and other stories about her growing up in a life circulated by old history beliefs and what have you, this slightly told history, mark this distinguished collection.

CHEBET MERCYLINE, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, tries to explain how almost difficult it is to love a boy freely,she also tries to unravel the complexities of her family's complex situation pertaining freedom and choice.
She tells of the trials of art to express her feelings,some of trying to exile part of what she dearly feels, thoughts of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice.
Some poems recall the hard times and difficult fantasies that never seem to come true ,while others echo the typical African tradition and Western broad imaginations. The title poem references her unsung thoughts and rhapsody but it is also a wild in a secret way.Personal revelations open up to a universal cry for compassion,freedom, acceptance and healing. These poems emerge as a powerful and elegant collection , hard-hitting yet refined, sophisticated yet moving.
Hope y'all have fun reading them!!!