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Writers Can Learn From Onjerika’s Caine Prize Gift To The Poor by SynCityNg: 6:08pm On Jul 22, 2018
Writers Can Learn from Onjerika’s Caine Prize Gift to the Poor

After being confirmed winner of the 2018 Caine prize for literature, Makena Onjerika has touched the hearts of many by her act of absolute authorial philanthropy by declaring that she will be donating a tenth of her £10,000 prize money to street children in Kenya.

This is only happening when most of Kenyan politicians are looking for the ways of how to stop teaching the arts in Kenya. One of the political suggestion to do away with the arts education in Kenya has been that arts teachers have to be paid lower salary compared to the science teachers.

Thank goodness, Onjerika is now proving those that are anti-arts education to be wrong. Especially, when she made the statement of her intention to help the street family when speaking to BBC on 6th July 2018. Onjerika said that the money will help rehabilitate street children in Kenya. She also added that she chose to write about street children because the people of Kenya. Kenyans are nonchalant about street children and only used the derogatroy... http://syncityng.com/2018/07/22/writers-can-learn-from-onjerikas-caine-prize-gift-to-the-poor/

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