What Others Say
“Abenea Ndago explored and revealed a uniquely Kenyan territory in his earlier
novel, Voices. ‘Crossing the Border’, an equally refreshing read makes western
Kenya’s past ethnic strife uniquely his own. This is the work of a master who trod
the very hills, rivers, streams, sugarcane plantations and tribal idiosyncrasies of
his characters and painfully evokes and retells the tribal spirits of postcolonial
Kenya. Though written, the narrative is a griot’s account of inter- ethnic history
of the Luo and their neighbours, the Kalenjin and the kisiis, and the inevitable
competing tribal consciousness .The politically instigated tribal wars of the 1990s
in Kenya is immortalized in this postcolonial Kenyan narrative by a relatively young
novelist”. – Mahat Hassan, Kenyan Literary Critic.