Category: General Essays
General Essays
Only African Indigenous Political Ideolo...
Open Letter to Kenya’s President o...
Why Don’t Kenyans Read?
Children as Insurance in Old Age
How Colonial Education System Destroyed ...
Why Imorality Rules the World
Why Basing Marriage on Romance Alone is ...
Why God’s Existence Can’t be Prove...
The Place of the witch and Witchcraft in...
Why Africa is Bereft of Creative Thinkin...
Why Am Holding Public Lecture on Witchcr...
Intellectual nomads and lack of creativi...
The Right Language in which to Write...
Intellectual Salvation
Writing for the Nobel Prize...
No African Novel Will Ever Beat Things F...
Writer as Cultural Healer
Models of Humanity
Kenya is barely sick not dead as nation
The Writer versus the State
How to Write and about what to Write
Africans Must Write and Publish to Preserve Their Values and Identity
by davidgmaillu | Mar 22, 2024 | David Maillu, General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published March 22, 2024 I was born in traditional Africa around 1939. My parents...
Read MoreOnly African Indigenous Political Ideology Can Save Kenya from Chaos
by davidgmaillu | Mar 14, 2024 | David Maillu, David Maillu in the News, General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published March 14, 2024 Everybody in Kenya is terrified by economic chaos, social...
Read MoreRuto and Raila are Brazen Liars
by davidgmaillu | Mar 3, 2024 | General Essays, Short Stories | 0 |
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...
Read MoreOpen Letter to Kenya’s President on Book Publishing
by davidgmaillu | Feb 18, 2024 | David Maillu, David Maillu in the News, General Essays | 0 |
By David G Maillu Published February 18, 2024 Mr President William Ruto, if I had the opportunity...
Read MoreWhy Don’t Kenyans Read?
by davidgmaillu | Jan 27, 2024 | General Essays, Short Stories | 0 |
By David Maillu Published January 27, 2024 It is a fallacy that Kenyans don’t read. That is a...
Read MoreChildren as Insurance in Old Age
by davidgmaillu | Sep 18, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published September 18, 2023 There are destitute parents abandoned by the children...
Read MoreHow Colonial Education System Destroyed Africa
by davidgmaillu | Sep 16, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published September 16, 2023 The dictionary describes education as “A process of...
Read MoreWhy Imorality Rules the World
by davidgmaillu | Sep 13, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
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 davidgmaillu | Sep 11, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
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...
Read MoreWhy Basing Marriage on Romance Alone is Pimitive
by davidgmaillu | Sep 4, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published September 4, 2023 In the modern world in which we live, which has been...
Read MoreWhy God’s Existence Can’t be Proved Scientifically
by davidgmaillu | Sep 1, 2023 | David Maillu, General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published September 1, 2023 It is wrong to judge African traditional knowledge by...
Read MoreThe Place of the witch and Witchcraft in Africa
by davidgmaillu | Aug 28, 2023 | General Essays | 0 |
By David Maillu Published August 28, 2023 In traditional Africa a witch is anyone who employs any...
Read MoreABOUT 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.