Posted by: afrowrite on: October 25, 2009
While Africa’s great writers Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both teaching in US universities, fight over whether African writers should use English or African language, the writer in Africa is busy explaining the continent to world in English.
Posted by: afrowrite on: December 31, 2008
Commodity shortages and rising prices have made Kenyans disillussioned.
Posted by: afrowrite on: December 23, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo
If you are working in Africa’s many urban centers, you are going to be travelling to your rural home to spend the Xmas with your family. You will have been saving bit by bit for this day because we, the average Africans have a few very important expenses for which we save [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: December 14, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo
If, you are in Kenya and have a secret to help your friend to become a president, don’t do it. If you do, remember that tomorrow, when he is the president, you will be his target for elimination. That is the wisdom that informs our political class.
When Kenyans were oppressed [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: November 18, 2008
Muli wa Kyendo
It’s a pity that no one said a thing—unless they whispered—against the illegal harassment of Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, the best known polygamist in the world. Abubakar, 84 years old, has 86 wives. According to interviews we have read, the women have voluntarily married him and are happy. Even the youngest in [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: November 12, 2008
Muli wa Kyendo
When someone like Miriam Makeba passes away, you are left with the feeling that God should have let her do something more. But then what is the something more? Mrs Makeba made great contribution to African and international music and to African fight for freedom. Maybe she wasn’t a complex mind – like [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: October 17, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo
A few months ago, I said in Africa we are never bored because there are so many things happening in our Great Continent. Some of these are of such momentous importance that if they were happening in another continent, they would be “World Lead” news headlines. But we never bother because we [...]
Posted by: afrowrite on: September 15, 2008
By Muli wa Kyendo
Nothing generates as much heat as an attack on a people’s culture. Much of it is because both sides – the attackers and the attacked – are blindly committed to their arguments. And worst of all, because these arguments are deeply rooted in belief systems. And belief systems raise fears, worries, and [...]
