Day: November 5, 2022

Dancing With The Balance Sheets; An Analysis Of Debt Restructuring In Kenya By Meshack Masibo

In the famous novel titled Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tells the story of a debt-ridden man called Unoka, a story similar to one told by William Shakespeare 400 years earlier about a character called Portia and the greedy Shylock in his book The Merchant of Venice. The narratives center around two persons overburdened by debt to the extent that no one ever gives Unoka a loan because they knew he would not pay while Portia offers a part of her flesh, (if it is gotten without making her bleed) to make good a debt owed to a ravenous shylock.