We are slowly losing critical culture to blind consumerism

By HENRY MUNENE

One of the greatest novels I have ever read is George Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936). I know most East Africans would readily be familiar with Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) or Animal Farm (1945), perhaps because the latter two have featured more prominently in our reading lists at high school and college.