Publishers do not seem to 'prioritise creative works’

Goro Kamau is the author of Nyota’s Dream, Let Her Be, Sara and the Pirates, Frogs for Sale. He also contributed the title story in the short story anthology When the Sun Goes Down, a set book in secondary schools. He is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at Laikipia University. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Goro wa Kamau’s appearance shouts ‘beware, Professor on the prowl’ even before he speaks. Yet his easy-going manner sets you at ease. “I don’t think I have a reasonable answer why I write,” he says and busts out laughing when I ask him why he writes.

“I think I write because I must. If you are meant to write, I don’t think you have much of a choice in the matter. Then when I look around me, I see so many stories that need to be told.”