Let age not be divisive issue in Kenyan literature discourse

Nigerian literary legend and Nobel Laurette for Literature Prof Wole Soyinka presents his speech at the Storymoja  Hay Festival at the Nairobi Museums yesterday. Looking on is Dr Auma Obama the festival Patron. Wole Soyinka calls for fundamentalism to defend human rights and liberties PHOTO GEORGE ORIDO

How to negotiate the weighty subject of literary theory in relation to age appears problematic to a few young people in Kenya.

It seems to have boiled over following a meeting reportedly held at the University of Nairobi’s Literature Department, and further at the Sarit Centre during the Book Week Exhibition on September 27, a meeting which I attended.