Calling a spade a spade: Kenyan literary authors are inherently ethnic

Ngugi wa Thiong'o  in Kisumu addressing readers on his book Weep Not Child. {PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

NAIROBI, KENYA: I have recently read that the population of the Kenyan middle-class has hit the 6.8 million mark, and that because of it, ethnic thinking is likely to reduce. I grant our political scientists their freedom to project, but they too should give me my freedom to doubt.

I should know it because some good poets have urged us to see ‘inter-textuality’ in our Literature –not a bad idea but, as usual, ‘something’ prevented them from naming the exact ties that bind Kenyan writing.