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How our bad Kenyan English results from our lack of a reading culture

A student reading a book.

A student reading a book. Kenyan students rarely read books outside their coursework, leading to poor grasp of the English language. 

Photo credit: Photo | Pool

By  Henry Indangasi

Before my retirement, I used to teach an MA course called Strategies of Effective Writing in Literature.

In order to illustrate the larger structural issues in writing, I liked using Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father.

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