Comments on: June Wanjiru Wainaina http://www.sundaysalon.com/june-wanjiru-wainaina.htm A Prose Reading Series and Magazine Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Maina http://www.sundaysalon.com/june-wanjiru-wainaina.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1658 David Maina Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:22:02 +0000 http://www.sundaysalon.com/?p=427#comment-1658 Sunday Salon is a fantastic concept that creatively brings to life the literary attention we need to give to great writing. Congratulations for a fabulous concept whose time has come! We must promote reading and African literary works in our generation, or we build generations on "sands of knowledge"; a weak foundation to build our future on. In as much as I believe strongly that there is a place for the oral traditions many of our African cultures have shunned, or misunderstood to mean nothing gets documented in today's day and age, our book shelves are crying out for African literary content by the 21st Century African. Who will take up the challenge? Who will save us from the doldrums of a dissipating culture? Who will save us from the pit of identity crisis that is haunting our youth? Who will help us define and record the culture we are creating today? Who will breathe life to our evolving culture and its sustainability? I believe the answer lies with the Sunday Salon thespians and the literary fraternity in our beautiful country? Then, we must ask, If not here, where? If not now, when? and If not you, who??? Sunday Salon is a fantastic concept that creatively brings to life the literary attention we need to give to great writing. Congratulations for a fabulous concept whose time has come!

We must promote reading and African literary works in our generation, or we build generations on “sands of knowledge”; a weak foundation to build our future on. In as much as I believe strongly that there is a place for the oral traditions many of our African cultures have shunned, or misunderstood to mean nothing gets documented in today’s day and age, our book shelves are crying out for African literary content by the 21st Century African.

Who will take up the challenge? Who will save us from the doldrums of a dissipating culture? Who will save us from the pit of identity crisis that is haunting our youth? Who will help us define and record the culture we are creating today? Who will breathe life to our evolving culture and its sustainability? I believe the answer lies with the Sunday Salon thespians and the literary fraternity in our beautiful country? Then, we must ask, If not here, where? If not now, when? and If not you, who???

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