Ngugi wa Thiong’o & son limited: Things I don’t understand, By Rudolf Okonkwo

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I needed no other event to conclude that the heroes of African struggles like Ngugi wa Thiong’o belong to us all. It was clear from the way people embraced him on that day. It is the same till this day. They had put a lot on the line – their freedom, fortune, and future, to push Africa in the right direction. Someone like Ngugi spent time in prison and exile, all to see that Africa crawls out of the abyss. We honour them for that sacrifice. And we will always do so time without end.

Unfortunately, most families don’t attain that ideal. How each family handles those kinds of lapses makes all the difference. And that is the challenge that Mukoma faces. Hopefully, soliciting such a contract from a cynical publishing world is not the purpose of Mukoma’s tweet. And hopefully, it was not a quarterback’s hail mary at the dying minute of the fourth quarter.

Writers have this predisposition to dream. Their dreams entail hunting for stories. Like a child by the seaside, writers pick up stories like a child picks up pebbles. Sometimes, the writer finds a shiny one. Sometimes, he finds one that needs polishing to bring out its shine. At other times, the pebble the child finds may not be the shell of a sea creature but the fingernails of a mermaid.

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