June 3rd 2021 at 11:33:07 GMT +0300
There is an oft-quoted doctrine that Kenyans do not read. They like to lump us in with other Africans when they say this, but everyone knows we’re nothing like our neighbours.
It is just one of those things we have a collective, reluctant awareness of, even though we cannot trace the exact origin of that belief. But it is hard to argue against it, because most of us have not read anything substantial since we tangled with Waiyaki and his girlfriend Nyambura necking on the banks of ‘River Honia’, or suffered through Dr. Stockman and his ceaseless whining, or rolled our eyes at Maimuna’s journey into prostitution in Utengano: The Feminist Diaries.