Barbara Kimenye

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Barbara Kimenye

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Barbara Kimenye, dubbed "East Africa's Enid Blyton," including having furnished her reading audience and fans with her renowned "Moses" series as well as others. May She Rest In Eternal Bliss!!!

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Never knew Barbara's name but she seems to be a best selling author.
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Is that "East Africa's Muhammad Ali" too? :wink:
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Mmm this topics got me wondering now....Who could be the 'Dick Emery of the Western Seaboard'???
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zaidi wrote:Never knew Barbara's name but she seems to be a best selling author.
At least in East africa she was very famous at the time we were reading Enid Blyton as children.
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