Kamau Mahakoe

Please Clear the Way and Let Me Pass Kamau Mahakoe

Second book in the series: “Any Thoughts?” “I am forty years old. I can say what I very well please, dammit!” declare the liberated voices all over the world, as they glumly pass the threshold. This farewell to censorship seems to be their one saving grace, since the flip side is the confrontation with mortality. Eeks! But what of the ones who have never been afraid, even from day one? What of the ones who have said to the world, “This is who I am, this is how I feel, this is what I say, this is where I stand”, long before the recommended age? Feisty pickney. If looks could kill. Screw Face. Standoffish. Unapproachable. Growing up, Kamau Mahakoe has been called all of these – by those who misinterpreted frankness for insolence. But, she has also been called sincere, honest and the realest real that there can be. So… At the age of forty, her raw tell-it-like-it-is-ness is one of the things she celebrates as the hallmark of the image she has built and hopes to maintain.