It’s Our Turn to Eat Reading in Kisumu
Organized by: International PEN Kenya Chapter
When: Saturday July 18, 2009
Time: 11am to 4pm
Where: Aga Khan Sports Centre.
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i read in todays dailies that Kisumu is on the brink of famine disaster and all
that these morons can think of is reading some trashy books?
na kweli mjinga ni mjinga tu!!!
So, according to your logic Jane, people should not read about the background on how Kenya got to the mess it is in? Maybe your ostrich-stuck-in-the-sand attitude is what has enabled Kenya to be where it is.
KP.
I dont think the issue is whether Kenya is corrupt or not but what needs to be done to reduce or eradicate corruption. This books are meant to enrich their authors and push agendas. This book will also be used to entrench ethnicity under the guise of fighting corruption.
I dont object to them reading the book by all means go ahead it’s your right but try to get something positive to come out of it. If people go there to reinforce stereotypes then it will have become another divisive issue for Kenyans.
Hi Jane, I’d like to know what you are doing to address famine in Kisumu and other major problems facing Kenya?
Indeed in these incredibly difficult times one finds incredibly dubious, the purpose of off handed and cynical comments that the likes of Jane makes. They are not productive,assistive and only serve to discourage what little good there is t in intiatives that the book reading provides.
Jane, Jellyfish, has either one of you read the book?
Jellyfish, most books take an enormous amount of time and effort to write. Few authors actually get rich, and surely it’s not a problem if an author earns money with his/her book. Or do you work for months and years for free? You wouldn’t ask a CEO to do so, you wouldn’t expect a bus driver to do so.
Last time I checked, attending a book reading is voluntary. Nobody is forcing anyone to abandon nation-saving activities to attend such a reading.