Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.