Category: General Essays
General Essays
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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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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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Children as Insurance in Old Age
By David Maillu Published September 18, 2023 There are destitute parents abandoned by the children...
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How Colonial Education System Destroyed Africa
By David Maillu Published September 16, 2023 The dictionary describes education as “A process of...
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Why Imorality Rules the World
By David Maillu Published September 13, 2023 Let us begin at home on a political note. Someone has...
Read MoreWhy 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...
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Why Basing Marriage on Romance Alone is Pimitive
By David Maillu Published September 4, 2023 In the modern world in which we live, which has been...
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Why God’s Existence Can’t be Proved Scientifically
By David Maillu Published September 1, 2023 It is wrong to judge African traditional knowledge by...
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The Place of the witch and Witchcraft in Africa
By David Maillu Published August 28, 2023 In traditional Africa a witch is anyone who employs any...
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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.