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Book publishers have of late found themselves under pressure to deliver scripts to support Competency-Based Education needs.
Today, if you review a book and cast it in a positive light, you risk being gaslighted for doing public relations, perhaps on grounds unrelated to the merits of the work.
The greatness Africa has been gasping for over the past few centuries is not merely infrastructural. Rather, it is mainly moral and ethical.
The African Writers Series has particularly shaped not just how we write about our fears, hopes and aspirations, it has been the architect of the African intellectual universe.
As the world marks Black History Month, perhaps it is time to reflect afresh on identity and freedom.
From global scandals to local exploitation cases, the enduring effects of colonial trauma continue to shape power, abuse, and accountability in society today.
Kinyanjui Kombani’s autobiography Dear Mama has been approved for classroom use, bringing the writer-banker’s personal memoir into Kenya’s school curriculum.
Authentic human writing carries a quality that cannot be faked, not by AI nor by any technological invention.
In my view, whenever a talented writer reads stories by other great writers, these great stories become the key to the main frameworks that characterise all enduring narratives.
The book pulls back the mask on the sacrifice it takes to make the ‘bucks’ in the US.
The stories we can tell best, and which can lend themselves to the most esoteric theories, are the stories that we understand. Local stories. Simple stories powerfully told.
It is always the man or woman in the mirror being invited to see an antithesis to his or her own ways, then find the right balance between their worldview and the alternative view.
Works of literary art do not just teach and entertain. They expand our minds and compress realities other than our own that may have been lived for decades.
Someone wrote that since civilisation began in Africa, the cradle of mankind, no one should lecture Africa on morality and culture.
In my view, the absurdities in postcolonial world are not just a reflection of what the authors think about their people or the people they write about.
In cities like Nairobi, the road and daily commute are a ritual of sorts, linking ordinary lives to capitalism and the dream of a better tomorrow.
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