I don't mean to demean but I hope you get my non-meaning

When you have the best writes on the internet today being Alai, Itumbi, Nyakundi? Why should a young person learn how to write in prose?

Ngugi wa Thiongo was exciled. But if I write like Pauline Wanjiru, I become an MBE?

Please don't blame the young people.

Just here on wazua, just read harrdre, gathige, amores, impunity etc. 50 million posts between them and you know what they are going to say. As in you write and you know, they shall say this. These are the people right now in Kenya. The online writers and poets.

You need to get into the program.

In Kenya, it's what can get me a Toyota. Not Ngugi wa Thiongo stuff. Education and prose is overated. If you think further than raira and uhuruto, wewe ni jinga sana.

On my FB account I have Chinua Achebe as my face. I was asked, "why do you hate Kenya so much?" By some bimbo who's now in parliament. I was talking about a poem about the US and Trump. Lakini this bimbo thought I was talking about Uhuru. You know? Kukosa kuenda form 6.

Having said that.

I'm happy to have mentored a young boy. He was 19 when I got to meet him. He told me he loved swahili. He's now in Dar es Salaam Uiniversity being taught Swahili even though I wanted him to do internet marketing. And his twitter posts are to die for.

It's the society to decide. Kama hawataki kikuyu ya Ngugi wa Thiongo wanataka ya Moses Kuria, there's nothing you can do about it. Just pray.

If you ever have a chance to read through KCPE, KCSE insha and compositions, plus the various papers and university projects you will understand why,

It's the opposite. Educational books are making money while the likes of fiction aren't selling at all. Biographies are doing somehow better than fiction.

I think most Kenyans only want to read for exams. There are guys who haven't read a single book since completing studies. The only work of fiction they've read being the set books at KCSE.

I have noted that bookshops are becoming scarce or reducing shop space, or like the case of TBC, becoming heavily reliant on educational books because they're more profitable. Getting simple non-educational titles from TBC is becoming harder and harder. I often have to check with Prestige

A lot of people in Kenya just don't read for fun - as Lolest! said, if it isn't motivational books, people are just reading to get through their (narrow) studies.

One of my work colleagues completed her masters degree this year, and she surprisingly referred to the 18th century as the medieval period just the other day.

We have many many Kenyan writers. Many. Get into transcribers Kenya, and you'll see. They make quite some money from their efforts.

I think its about time we realized that we are old. That change is taking over at a much faster rate than we can handle. That is if we are asking questions like this, and comparing ourselves to lesser developed nations.

Audio books, soft copies have taken over paper backs. Same way DVDs phased out cassettes. About time we introduced audio-visual aids into our learning institutions. Every classroom, in my opinion, needs a TV and CPU. How else do we make technological strides and catch up with our Cousins in Obama-land?