Echoes of women's voices in the poetry of the Bible

The Bible’s poetic voices, from Hannah and Miriam to Deborah, the woman in Song of Songs and Mary, reveal how women transform suffering, desire, courage and hope into powerful expressions.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 28 days ago

How writers turn reality into a story

The writer takes materials encountered in reality and subjects them to imagination. Reality enters the writer's creative consciousness and emerges in another form.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

There is research behind every great story

Creative writers are the only researchers whose success depends on making their research invisible.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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Graduates who never read and do all that appertains to their degrees

A teacher who does not read cannot produce readers. Inspiration is rarely transmitted through instruction alone. It is transmitted through example. Period.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Why the Congolese Seben is Africa's greatest cultural gift

Lingala music is not merely music. It is a sophisticated cultural text.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Jotham's fable and the mistake of electing the wrong leaders

We should not be asking where all the good leaders have gone. The better question is whether we have done enough to identify, persuade, protect and retain our olive trees.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

The crisis of fatherhood and the rise of Andrew Kibe as hero

Andrew Kibe is not merely a media personality. He is a cultural text. His popularity tells us that thousands of young men are searching for an interpreter of manhood.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

Fathers have gone missing, the boy child is endangered

The tragedy is that while the world has changed dramatically, many of our boys continue to be prepared for a world that no longer exists.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

We cannot build a great nation on broken values

Culture is not what hangs in our museums. Culture is what lives in our hearts, guides our choices, shapes our institutions and ultimately determines the kind of nation we become. 

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

How pornography is warping how children understand love

We must pay close attention to the stories our children consume. Whoever controls the stories they hear ultimately shapes their minds.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

Teenagers, rebellion and the power of telling their stories

The quickest route to failure is to burden teenage readers with preachy messages. Teenagers have little patience for sermons disguised as stories.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

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Why Africa needs fresh ideas, not endless colonial outrage

My view is that we should stop writing back and start writing forward. Writing back was a form of resistance. Writing forward must become reconstruction.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

Why I went back to law after four degrees and counting

In a society that often measures success through the accumulation of wealth and comfort, returning to the classroom after years of professional achievement appears unnecessary.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

What writers can learn from outstanding Kenyan runners

Dedication is highly repetitive. It is showing up when the body resists and the mind negotiates excuses.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

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This is how to rescue poetry from shackles of classrooms

Poetry must be returned to life. It must leave the exam paper and re-enter the gathering, the school club, and the community hall.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

Echoes of women's voices in the poetry of the Bible

The Bible’s poetic voices, from Hannah and Miriam to Deborah, the woman in Song of Songs and Mary, reveal how women transform suffering, desire, courage and hope into powerful expressions.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 28 days ago

How writers turn reality into a story

The writer takes materials encountered in reality and subjects them to imagination. Reality enters the writer's creative consciousness and emerges in another form.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

There is research behind every great story

Creative writers are the only researchers whose success depends on making their research invisible.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Premium

Graduates who never read and do all that appertains to their degrees

A teacher who does not read cannot produce readers. Inspiration is rarely transmitted through instruction alone. It is transmitted through example. Period.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Why the Congolese Seben is Africa's greatest cultural gift

Lingala music is not merely music. It is a sophisticated cultural text.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Jotham's fable and the mistake of electing the wrong leaders

We should not be asking where all the good leaders have gone. The better question is whether we have done enough to identify, persuade, protect and retain our olive trees.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

The crisis of fatherhood and the rise of Andrew Kibe as hero

Andrew Kibe is not merely a media personality. He is a cultural text. His popularity tells us that thousands of young men are searching for an interpreter of manhood.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

Fathers have gone missing, the boy child is endangered

The tragedy is that while the world has changed dramatically, many of our boys continue to be prepared for a world that no longer exists.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

We cannot build a great nation on broken values

Culture is not what hangs in our museums. Culture is what lives in our hearts, guides our choices, shapes our institutions and ultimately determines the kind of nation we become. 

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

How pornography is warping how children understand love

We must pay close attention to the stories our children consume. Whoever controls the stories they hear ultimately shapes their minds.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

Teenagers, rebellion and the power of telling their stories

The quickest route to failure is to burden teenage readers with preachy messages. Teenagers have little patience for sermons disguised as stories.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

Premium

Why Africa needs fresh ideas, not endless colonial outrage

My view is that we should stop writing back and start writing forward. Writing back was a form of resistance. Writing forward must become reconstruction.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

Why I went back to law after four degrees and counting

In a society that often measures success through the accumulation of wealth and comfort, returning to the classroom after years of professional achievement appears unnecessary.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

What writers can learn from outstanding Kenyan runners

Dedication is highly repetitive. It is showing up when the body resists and the mind negotiates excuses.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

Premium

This is how to rescue poetry from shackles of classrooms

Poetry must be returned to life. It must leave the exam paper and re-enter the gathering, the school club, and the community hall.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

Echoes of women's voices in the poetry of the Bible

The Bible’s poetic voices, from Hannah and Miriam to Deborah, the woman in Song of Songs and Mary, reveal how women transform suffering, desire, courage and hope into powerful expressions.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 28 days ago

How writers turn reality into a story

The writer takes materials encountered in reality and subjects them to imagination. Reality enters the writer's creative consciousness and emerges in another form.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

There is research behind every great story

Creative writers are the only researchers whose success depends on making their research invisible.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Premium

Graduates who never read and do all that appertains to their degrees

A teacher who does not read cannot produce readers. Inspiration is rarely transmitted through instruction alone. It is transmitted through example. Period.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Why the Congolese Seben is Africa's greatest cultural gift

Lingala music is not merely music. It is a sophisticated cultural text.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

Jotham's fable and the mistake of electing the wrong leaders

We should not be asking where all the good leaders have gone. The better question is whether we have done enough to identify, persuade, protect and retain our olive trees.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

The crisis of fatherhood and the rise of Andrew Kibe as hero

Andrew Kibe is not merely a media personality. He is a cultural text. His popularity tells us that thousands of young men are searching for an interpreter of manhood.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

Fathers have gone missing, the boy child is endangered

The tragedy is that while the world has changed dramatically, many of our boys continue to be prepared for a world that no longer exists.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

We cannot build a great nation on broken values

Culture is not what hangs in our museums. Culture is what lives in our hearts, guides our choices, shapes our institutions and ultimately determines the kind of nation we become. 

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

How pornography is warping how children understand love

We must pay close attention to the stories our children consume. Whoever controls the stories they hear ultimately shapes their minds.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago