Writing for Peace

Writing for Peace is an essay from the book, Barrel of a Pen, by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.

Written about Kenya in 1982 (during the Ronald Reagan administration), and written from the Kenyan nationalist perspective, Thiong'o exposes the then cultural, political, and economic exploitation of Kenya, his objective to "raise consciousness" and promote an "uncompromising hatred" of all parasitic cultural, political, and economic relationships.

The relevant question after reading Ngugi's essay, Writing for Peace, is this: Does the cultural, political, and economic exploitation Thiong'o described in 1982 still exist today?

Where? And How? What examples are readily available? What can be done? What should be done?

(Click the link above to read the three-page essay, Writing for Peace, by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.)