Language

Ngugi and the Geology of Memory

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Going to the university for the first time in the harmattan semester of 1991-92, I first realised how influential Ngugi wa Thiong’o was in the Nigerian literary and dramatic spheres. Pen Point, the only independent student bulletin with which I would occasionally publish, had been named after a similar publication edited by Ngugi in the […]

AI Writes. I Bleed

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When I came across a writer’s online rant about his original work being flagged as 60% AI-generated, I thought he must be a bad writer. Not because the detectors are infallible, but because I’ve come to believe AI itself is a bad writer. Clean, articulate, even clever, but insipid. It writes with zero soul. So, […]