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Poetry must be returned to life. It must leave the exam paper and re-enter the gathering, the school club, and the community hall.
In a society that often measures success through the accumulation of wealth and comfort, returning to the classroom after years of professional achievement appears unnecessary.
Dedication is highly repetitive. It is showing up when the body resists and the mind negotiates excuses.
My view is that we should stop writing back and start writing forward. Writing back was a form of resistance. Writing forward must become reconstruction.
The quickest route to failure is to burden teenage readers with preachy messages. Teenagers have little patience for sermons disguised as stories.
We must pay close attention to the stories our children consume. Whoever controls the stories they hear ultimately shapes their minds.
Culture is not what hangs in our museums. Culture is what lives in our hearts, guides our choices, shapes our institutions and ultimately determines the kind of nation we become.
The tragedy is that while the world has changed dramatically, many of our boys continue to be prepared for a world that no longer exists.
Andrew Kibe is not merely a media personality. He is a cultural text. His popularity tells us that thousands of young men are searching for an interpreter of manhood.
We should not be asking where all the good leaders have gone. The better question is whether we have done enough to identify, persuade, protect and retain our olive trees.
Lingala music is not merely music. It is a sophisticated cultural text.
A teacher who does not read cannot produce readers. Inspiration is rarely transmitted through instruction alone. It is transmitted through example. Period.
Creative writers are the only researchers whose success depends on making their research invisible.
The writer takes materials encountered in reality and subjects them to imagination. Reality enters the writer's creative consciousness and emerges in another form.
The Bible’s poetic voices, from Hannah and Miriam to Deborah, the woman in Song of Songs and Mary, reveal how women transform suffering, desire, courage and hope into powerful expressions.
Dolly Parton’s lifelong love of books offers a lesson for parents to balance children’s screen time with reading, helping them develop patience, imagination and sustained attention.
Artificial Intelligence cannot replace the human being in the creative process. The reason is simple. It is our unique experiences that we transform into narratives
There is a course we teach all our literature students at the university that I find particularly interesting.
Social media is creating a space for vignette-style writing, where brief, sharply observed moments can function as a distinctive form of contemporary literature.
Fred Obachi Machoka is the grand storyteller who mediates this dialogue by employing a variety of strategies to execute his mandate.
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