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THE STANDARD By Allan Mungai | March 17th 2021 at 07:58:32 GMT +0300 Tributes yesterday continued to pour in for veteran journalist Robin Njogu ( pictured). Njogu died of Covid-19 complications at the Aga Khan Hospital on Monday, where he had been admitted for three weeks. His death came just days after that of his mother. At the time of his death, Njogu served as the Managing Editor for Radio at Royal Media Services where he oversaw 13 stations. He was also part of the 19-member Task Force Report on the Improvement of Information and Public Communication that made recommendations on how...

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The novel opens with the narrator and his wife agonising over whether to terminate a pregnancy – because their baby almost certainly has a rare genetic abnormality. They opt for an abortion, and later have a son – who in his early years is “slow to develop”. In “deceptively simple, pared-back” prose, the narrator details all the “difficult emotions” this engenders. “This is a complicated story, told with fearless honesty,” said James Smart in The Guardian. Although funny at times, it has a “thoughtful frankness” that can “stop you in your tracks”. In depicting it a...