Good people,
First, let me confess to nigh plagiarism of the title of my blog. It is taken from Chinua Achebe's book "The trouble with Nigeria." Of course you knew that!
I have been reading and re-reading the book many times. But, my goodness, the similarities between Nigeria and Kenya are abundant.
The leadership poverty is the foremost. Yes, we have Kenya Vision 2030, but really, there is nothing much to gloat over three years later. Just lofty conferences with the hackneyed "The Kenya We Want" title, a bloated Cabinet, a media obsessed with politics, a public that literally worships politicians, some clergy who deliberately mislead the flock "just because they pray for us", hungry citizens in arid areas...problems galore.
But Kenya is a nice country. It has nice people, magnificent views, some sane police officers who hate corruption, sane journalists who practice public policy journalism, stable economy (but a choking per capita income) and patriots, like me, who hate the maxim, again to copy from Chinua Achebe's sticker, "Love this country or Leave it." In short, I'd just say, I love my country, but I hate the politics of government.I love my country. Keep reading.
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Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. "Imaginative literature," therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both.
- Simone Weil
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
- Carolyn Wells
A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
- W. D. Wetherell
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
- E. B. White
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
- E. B. White
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
- Oscar Wilde
If the sex scene doesn't make you want to do it - whatever it is they're doing - it hasn't been written right.
- Sloan Wilson
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.
- P. G. Wodehouse
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
- P. G. Wodehouse
Pay attention to the sound of words.
- Dave Wolverton
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
- Jack Woodford
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
- Alexander Woollcott
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
- Richard Wright
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
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