National outcry lead by Kenya Education Minister Mutula Kalonzo over writer Witi Ihimaera bookTheWhale Rider is sign of intellectual lazyness.
The debate had come to late when the students are already deep in the said book because it was introduced over one year back.
Given that the book is by guy writer should not be bun as the Minister suggest because some of those steering the debate had not read the book because Kenyans are known to be poor readers.
The trunth is that The Whale Rider like the Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wathiong should not be judged by cover. but the matters should be left to Scholars to judge.
The nagging question twisting the minds of book lovers is how can Mutula and other noise makers take one full year to judge the book which is small to read.
Let Mutula and his group understand that Literature is like beautiful sea, because inside the sea there is bad and good for the fisherman to decide between the snake and fish.
For literature students who are intellectually mature we have optional books and compulsory and let them choice
Ihimaera being guy writer does not means that he is teaching guy massage and homosexuality. and if so there are numerous guy writers in the World and nobody had bun there books.
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