I would like to have dinner with Nelson Mandela. This because he not only is my hero, he also is a good story teller. I would specifically want to know where he got his resilience from and how he sees the future for a united Africa.
Please allow me to take two. NoViolet Bulawayo and Jackson Biko. I think I'd have a night full of laughter. Would also be refreshing to tap into their intelligence.
I would like to have dinner with Zukiswa Wanner. I love the way she weaves her stories, goes different places and explores the human experience with a twist. I would ask 'how do decide what to write about next?'
Dinner for me would be with Biko Jackson. I would love to behold him with my eyes, this man who has a way with words, who can weave a short story intricately so that it sounds like a whole novel. I would like to know if he is what he writes
Ngugi wa Thiong'o remains to be that one inspiring writer for me. He brings out so many aspects in art work whether its in a novel, a play, short story or an essay. The question I would still ask him is how can artistic writing still influence social-economic and political change in 21st century knowing readers are turning so much into digital work and not books?
It would be a toss between Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie for their various impacts on me and my passion for African languages, views on life and open feminism and the African culture.
Ken Saro Wiwa. Africa Kills her Sun still reverberates through my mind years since I first read it. What was going through his mind when he penned that piece?
It would be Chimamanda. I would like to know how she manages to write in an easy way and push and push and push the reader to their limits. Also, I would like to know how she manages to write about some things that happened before her time, more like Shakespeare who wrote about places he had never been to.
P.M Kareithi “Kaburi bila Msalaba” I would have liked to get to Know first hand about the personal life experiences that shaped his ideas. How his sojourn to Kent state University during the height of the civil rights push affected him. I would have liked to get to know him in adult hood. He passed away when I was only 6. Always in our hearts Dad.
I would like to have dinner with Nelson Mandela. This because he not only is my hero, he also is a good story teller. I would specifically want to know where he got his resilience from and how he sees the future for a united Africa.
Please allow me to take two. NoViolet Bulawayo and Jackson Biko. I think I'd have a night full of laughter. Would also be refreshing to tap into their intelligence.
I would like to have dinner with Zukiswa Wanner. I love the way she weaves her stories, goes different places and explores the human experience with a twist. I would ask 'how do decide what to write about next?'
Dinner for me would be with Biko Jackson. I would love to behold him with my eyes, this man who has a way with words, who can weave a short story intricately so that it sounds like a whole novel. I would like to know if he is what he writes
Ngugi wa Thiong'o remains to be that one inspiring writer for me. He brings out so many aspects in art work whether its in a novel, a play, short story or an essay. The question I would still ask him is how can artistic writing still influence social-economic and political change in 21st century knowing readers are turning so much into digital work and not books?
It would be a toss between Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie for their various impacts on me and my passion for African languages, views on life and open feminism and the African culture.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.
Has your insistence to write in Kikuyu had any lasting impact?
What?
Ben Okri. What particular real experiences triggered his creative crafting of the "The Famished Road" surreal world!?
Ken Saro Wiwa. Africa Kills her Sun still reverberates through my mind years since I first read it. What was going through his mind when he penned that piece?
It would be Chimamanda. I would like to know how she manages to write in an easy way and push and push and push the reader to their limits. Also, I would like to know how she manages to write about some things that happened before her time, more like Shakespeare who wrote about places he had never been to.
Taban Lo Liyong; Would like to get a better feel behind his thought process when he was writing such material as Lexicographicide.
George Orwell..How he forecasted where we are today as a country
Mbella Sonne Dipoko [Cameroonian poet]
He influenced my passion for poetry through his anthology BLACK AND WHITE IN LOVE.
I am always fascinated by his narrative in that story, so I would ask him, is it based on personal experience?
Next question: why do you like that food?
How do your literary works in the present ongoing scenarios or context?
P.M Kareithi “Kaburi bila Msalaba” I would have liked to get to Know first hand about the personal life experiences that shaped his ideas. How his sojourn to Kent state University during the height of the civil rights push affected him. I would have liked to get to know him in adult hood. He passed away when I was only 6. Always in our hearts Dad.