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PopularWhy the Cost of Sex is a National Problem
By David Maillu Published September 11, 2023 In traditional Africa nobody starved sexually because the practical social order exercised a structure in which everybody had access to sex, particular through marriage. Nobody in the...
Short Stories
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Praying to the Sun
That night Josa could hardly sleep. He kept on tossing about the bed his thoughts locked up in a...
David Maillu in the News
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Kenyan Writer David Maillu Goes Online, Turns Rural Home into Art Museum and Literary College
By Ogova OndegoPublished January 27, 2009 David Gian Mailu, he of the After 4.30, My Dear Bottle,...
Africans Must Write and Publish to Preserve Their Values and Identity
By David Maillu Published March 22, 2024 I was born in traditional Africa around 1939. My parents...
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Only African Indigenous Political Ideology Can Save Kenya from Chaos
By David Maillu Published March 14, 2024 Everybody in Kenya is terrified by economic chaos, social...
Read MoreRuto and Raila are Brazen Liars
By David Maillu Published March 3, 2024 Opposition politician Raila Odinga is a liar. A big black liar. He organized an incredible mass demonstration in 2023, saying he had beaten President William Ruto with a margin of 3...
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Open Letter to Kenya’s President on Book Publishing
By David G Maillu Published February 18, 2024 Mr President William Ruto, if I had the opportunity...
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Eat Before You Are Eaten
By David Maillu Published February 6, 2024 A journalist from a leading newspaper made an...
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Why Don’t Kenyans Read?
By David Maillu Published January 27, 2024 It is a fallacy that Kenyans don’t read. That is a...
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ABOUT ME
Hi, I am David Gian Maillu. Thanks for visiting my website. When I got interested in story-telling in my childhood, little did I know that that innocent interest would later develop into a full time career. Today, I am one of Kenya’s most prolific creative writers, novelists, essayists, playwrights, poets, artists and theologians specializing in African Religion and Literature.