hi welcome to watchmojo.com I’m Reyes
Laila today we get the chance to sit
down with prominent Kenyan author Binyah
Vanga way Nina who won the Caine prize
for African writing for his short story
discovering home why have you remained
so attached to Kenya’s politics and
economic situation I was born and
brought up in Kenya and somebody spent a
lot of time telling me to sing the
national anthem every day so can I ve in
that sense right and so I’m invested but
the truth is it’s just a 40 year old
country and there’s a lot it hasn’t done
bliss it hasn’t gone questions that have
to be asked of it being a writer who has
a certain name in certain places like
adopt economic people and I can say okay
what’s a useful position that we think
we should try and push so that people
start to understand that there’s a
narrative we want to write for ourselves
and we don’t want the New York Times to
be writing it and that sort of thing
would you please tell us what you mean
by the term equity generation I think it
was referring to a generation of people
who are born after independence muslimah
under the age of 15 many of them managed
to get to a certain place because kind
of did provided reasonably decent
education for some of its people but
what happened was the country was so
badly being mismanaged that the economy
was declining and so when they hit
majority which is 18 20 10 came out of
college for just hanging about either
doing innovative things in the informal
sector or doing in dead-end jobs and
doing things on the side and so what
happened in five years ago with a mid
mixture of referia and groove style
politics that in especially in there
will be a new generation of people
started to do very well that you have
purchasing power supreme fans started to
get loans that into pee loon givers and
sad banks and schools and IT businesses
and all kinds of things was an idea of a
return of something and for my for me
belonging to a generation like that it
was amazing to see my peers and what
they could do with just a little bit of
a boost in a sense of possibility and
for me talking about the equity
generation is very important because
there’s a sense of fatalism amongst us
Africans and other people that somehow
whatever it is that ails our countries
is unfixable is unknowable is
unmeasurable when you see examples like
that you
realize that really it’s very much about
arranging a political and economic
structure well enough that people get to
do the things they need to do and given
the chance they will
Laila today we get the chance to sit
down with prominent Kenyan author Binyah
Vanga way Nina who won the Caine prize
for African writing for his short story
discovering home why have you remained
so attached to Kenya’s politics and
economic situation I was born and
brought up in Kenya and somebody spent a
lot of time telling me to sing the
national anthem every day so can I ve in
that sense right and so I’m invested but
the truth is it’s just a 40 year old
country and there’s a lot it hasn’t done
bliss it hasn’t gone questions that have
to be asked of it being a writer who has
a certain name in certain places like
adopt economic people and I can say okay
what’s a useful position that we think
we should try and push so that people
start to understand that there’s a
narrative we want to write for ourselves
and we don’t want the New York Times to
be writing it and that sort of thing
would you please tell us what you mean
by the term equity generation I think it
was referring to a generation of people
who are born after independence muslimah
under the age of 15 many of them managed
to get to a certain place because kind
of did provided reasonably decent
education for some of its people but
what happened was the country was so
badly being mismanaged that the economy
was declining and so when they hit
majority which is 18 20 10 came out of
college for just hanging about either
doing innovative things in the informal
sector or doing in dead-end jobs and
doing things on the side and so what
happened in five years ago with a mid
mixture of referia and groove style
politics that in especially in there
will be a new generation of people
started to do very well that you have
purchasing power supreme fans started to
get loans that into pee loon givers and
sad banks and schools and IT businesses
and all kinds of things was an idea of a
return of something and for my for me
belonging to a generation like that it
was amazing to see my peers and what
they could do with just a little bit of
a boost in a sense of possibility and
for me talking about the equity
generation is very important because
there’s a sense of fatalism amongst us
Africans and other people that somehow
whatever it is that ails our countries
is unfixable is unknowable is
unmeasurable when you see examples like
that you
realize that really it’s very much about
arranging a political and economic
structure well enough that people get to
do the things they need to do and given
the chance they will
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