Author: Samwel Ndandala
When Ngugi wa Thiongo renounced English, Christianity, his Christian name (he was baptized as James Ngugi) and started writing in his native Gikuyu and Swahili, I thought it was a little extreme given his radical fanonist convictions. I thought it was impractical. Continue reading
Last night my parents invited me to a dinner that they were having with Mr. Joseph W. Butiku- the Executive Director of Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation and also one of the Commissioners of the Constitutional Review Commission. As you can imagine, I was very happy. It was an opportunity for me to meet this great man- one of our nation’s fathers.
We talked about Continue reading
My column for this week in the Continent Observer spoke about the ‘ideological vacuum’. As I explained in the column, I heard that phrase together with ‘moral vacuum’ from a lecture given by Fr. Dr. Kitima of St. Augustine University of Tanzania. So in the column I expressed my initial thoughts on the ‘ideological vacuum’ and here I will talk about my reflection on the ‘moral vacuum’. Continue reading