(This is a shorter version of a conference paper presented by the writer at Makerere University, Uganda) There is one book written by Chinua Achebe that...
Author - Alexander K. Opicho
Alexander Ernesto Khamala Namugugu Opicho was born in Bokoli village, Bungoma District, in the former Western provice of Kenya. He went to primary and secondary schools in Western Kenya. He studied Accountancy, then governance and leadership at the University. He is currently pursuing a Phd course in management. He has two wives; Literature is the first. He has published poetry with Ghana poetry foundation, the East African Standard and on AfricanWriter.com. He has published online more than two hundred essays, several literary criticisms and over six hundred poems. His five books are with the publisher. He believes that the praxis of literature is the practice of freedom.
There are many reasons why a Kenyan should not miss being in Nigeria. Key among them is the diverse similarities between Nigeria and Kenya; Nigeria has Lagos...
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Let me start by appreciating Professor Austen Bukenya’s stand on the challenges that boggle young African writers’ minds, as recently published in the...
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A LEOPARD IS NOT A GOOD HUNTING COMPANION The leopard and the lion chose to become friends, For they were all proud of claws on their paws They each glorified...
This year alone the world has lost more than ten great intellectual and political leaders. They have been lost to death in a deeply wounding manner. Humanity...
The Western world has a passion and regard for book reading. Reading has been ingrained and socialised into the European and American social systems. The...
There is the excuse that Westerners stole our science and patented it. But that does not trash the most important question of the moment: what happened to...
