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Kenyans have little to no reading culture

I recently got into a very heated debate on Twitter over what books are or more practically, what books mean. This was after I responded to Mr. Ken Walibora’s tweet, a renowned Kenyan novelist, about the demise of Bookpoint Bookshop.

It read like this: Bookpoint along Moi Avenue, Nairobi went down about a year or so ago and not as much as a whisper in the media. Why?

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