Ink and Ashes: Letters from Prison, Exile and Rebellion
About the Book
Mushila Victor Isaacs is an acclaimed Kenyan writer, poet, and researcher whose work weaves together storytelling, activism, and critical scholarship. With a background in Business and ICT, he is the author of the bestselling Savvy Savanna: Animals in Business, the spiritually charged political novel Seen and the Unseen, and the poetic climate justice anthology Whispers of the Nature: 100 Poems on Climate and Environment.
A passionate advocate for environmental justice, indigenous knowledge, and human dignity, Mushila is also actively engaged in community service through the church and a grassroots NGO working across Kenya’s most vulnerable regions. His writing explores the unseen wounds of power, memory, and resistance—inviting readers to listen deeply in the places where silence speaks the loudest.
Chapter 1: The Letter They Failed to Bury
Summary
In a nameless prison built to erase identity, the narrator records fragments of memory that refuse to die. Guards rename places, ban songs, and police language—yet rhythm, repetition, and remembrance endure. Through hidden archives and whispered names, the chapter shows how memory becomes both weapon and refuge against state-sanctioned erasure.
Excerpt
“This letter is not an act of courage. I am afraid every single day. But fear is a terrain I’ve learned to walk barefoot. I write to insist that I exist. That we existed. That truth leaves fingerprints, even after the state burns the hand.”
Highlight
Memory is fire. In a regime that renames prisons and silences stories, voices survive through cracks in the wall, forbidden songs, and the stubborn rhythm of truth.
Chapter 2: Thirst in the Furnace
Summary
Inside Garissa Prison’s searing heat, thirst is weaponized and water becomes political. The chapter exposes the collision of climate injustice and incarceration—where contaminated taps, overcrowding, and drought turn concrete cells into climate frontlines. It argues that climate justice without prison justice is a broken promise.
Excerpt
“Environmental injustice is not a future apocalypse. It is an ongoing crime scene. And prisons like Garissa are its hidden graveyards. No one writes climate policy with prisoners in mind… And yet, we are on the frontline.”
Highlight
Water is the new ballot. Thirst, rationing, and poisoned pipes expose how environmental violence governs the body—and how survival itself becomes rebellion.
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