User talk:ProfAlex Mureithi

THE LAND QUESTION To those who cherish literature,the land question is undoubtedly a motif in most literary works,including and not limited to;novels plays and songs.The enigma has always been on how a handful of people own large tracts of land,whereas the vast majority are landless.How was the sharing done after the departure of the white man?If the land was bought,as they purport to have,from whom did they buy?Is there a curse behind land ownership or how can the snowball effect in land acquisition be explained?Different scholars and music composers have tried to demystify the land question ,with varying degrees of futility.The American based Kenyan novelist cum playwright,Prof NGUGI WA THION'GO featuring MICEERE MUGO in the oeuvre I Will Marry When I Want answers the question on the snowball effect in land ownership.When one acquires a piece of land,the appetite for more land increases rather than plummeting .This is seen through the Kiois,who own immeasurable tracts of land,but instead of being contented,they move foward to disinherit the Kigundas,who appear to be microcosms for poverty. Leo Tolstoy ,In his work,How Much Land Does a Man Need,also dissects the same issue.The point of interface for the two works is at the INSATIABLE APPETITE FOR LAND. In the latter Pakhom dies on his way back to the Bashkirs after marking the land he wanted to acquire ,all day long.In Ngugis post colonial oeuvres,ie Devil On The Cross,the aforementioned issues has been addressed vis a vis the Marxist ideologies. --ProfAlex Mureithi (talk) 09:00, 21 November 2020 (UTC)