Vitabu zenye watato watoto ya dynasty wanasoma part 1

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watoto wa hasora @ndindu wakisoma beautiful nyakio na the river between watoto wa dynasty pale eton wanasoma hizi, very sad smh.

Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn
Vol. 2. Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Vol. 3. Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne
Vol. 4. Complete Poems in English, Milton
Vol. 5. Essays and English Traits, Emerson
Vol. 6. Poems and Songs, Burns
Vol. 7. The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Imitation of Christ
Vol. 8. Nine Greek Dramas
Vol. 9. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
Vol. 10. Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Vol. 11. Origin of Species, Darwin
Vol. 12. Plutarch’s Lives
Vol. 13. Aeneid, Virgil
Vol. 14. Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes
Vol. 15. Bunyan & Walton
Vol. 16. The Thousand and One Nights
Vol. 17. Folk-Lore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
Vol. 18. Modern English Drama
Vol. 19. Faust, Egmont, etc., Goethe, Doctor Faustus, Marlowe
Vol. 20. The Divine Comedy, Dante
Vol. 21. I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
Vol. 22. The Odyssey, Homer
Vol. 23. Two Years Before the Mast, Dana
Vol. 24. On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc., Burke
Vol. 25. J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle
Vol. 26. Continental Drama
Vol. 27. English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay
Vol. 28. Essays, English and American
Vol. 29. Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin
Vol. 30. Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc.
Vol. 31. Autobiography, Cellini
Vol. 32. Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc.
Vol. 33. Voyages and Travels
Vol. 34. Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
Vol. 35. Froissart, Malory, Holinshead
Vol. 36. Machiavelli, More, Luther
Vol. 37. Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Vol. 38. Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
Vol. 39. Famous Prefaces
Vol. 40. English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
Vol. 41. English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

msito novus homo nitachambua hizi vitabu polepole bila wasiwasi bado mimi mtoto mdooogo

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This is mental enslavement.

These books are extremely foreign to our African way of life…
Afadhali wasome hiyo river between, Murogi wakagoogo, Kisima sha Ginigi etc

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List swafee

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Kijiji imejaa watu walisomea DEB. Very few elitist in this shithole …

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patrician ya baringo tuma kakitu juu ya hiyo maneno

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Waturedio umesema mtoto asome ‘masaibu ya brother Jero’

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Mfalme na majitu

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Hizi vitabu zote nilisoma kabla nifike form 2. By the way nilikuwa nimesoma 3/4 ya works of Shakespeare na Sherlock Holmes nikiwa standard 7. Writings of Karl Marx and British constitution by Form four. But naona hazikunisaidia.

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Ama john kiriamiti

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Fanya podcasts

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Its not good that you don’t seem to know what those kinds of books inculcate in a society.

It makes you just another meno brown mdomo kauka kagege type.

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Cc to @johntez_addi_gaza_ms kiriamuti

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The gospel of Mark is derived /based on Homer’s Odyssey

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These are not applicable to the African way of life and we should blame ourselves for letting the white man dictate what qualifies as books to read before you grow up. The Black man is a mental slave; I read those books in primary school, high school and college and when I grew figured it was all bullshit . Ngugi, Soyinka, Achebe, Imbuga, Coetzee,Nadine, PBitek and more are what every African should be reading not some
mumbo jumbo shiet; Africa for Africans . I see some of those books on my kids school lists but I make sure they also read books from African,Black, Latino authors to widen their perspectives.

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On the contrary hiyo vitabu iko na mada mzito mzito philosophical. Infact I doubt introducing such heavy books to kids does them or the books any justice… I would still be glad of my kids were familiar with the ways of the whiteman and how he thinks, in addition to akina Beautiful Nyakio.

Nakumbuka nikisoma Things fall apart nikiwa class 5, and reading it as an adult kedo 3yrs ago baada ya kupitia maisha, during covid it slapped different.

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It would be missing the point of reading, if books were read as a show of support, loyalty or just coz you can relate with its content as a race or a culture. You actually learn nothing when you intellectually lock yourself in on your own culture.

Books are fundamentally about knowledge, solutions, perspectives and learning new ways and broadening perspectives.

Most of the books in that reading lists are either by actual leaders that were inspirational and transformed their nations, or are seminal texts that lead to actual revolutions, others are fundamental ordering texts that were used as a guide to societies.

You would struggle to find african writers that have that level of pedigree within their works among the ones you have mentioned. And it’s not through any fault of their own, btw.
I am actually discovering that reading list as an adult and boy is it profound…

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Same here, my old man, a Prof., made us read his library and borrow more. Holiday ya one month ungesoma 30 books. English ended up being a very easy subject for us. Lazima babako pia alikua educationist.

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It’s astonishing when you think these books are profound yet don’t think that Blacks/Africans, Latinos can be influential. We have Pedigree writers are influential and have inspired revolutions , ideas and movements . Marcus Garvey , James Baldwin, Paton, Mandela, Armah, Laye, Angelou. People who think like us not some junguu trying to tell us what we should be reading and influence us.

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Yet tuko pamoja on bonobotalk.com

Those mbuks were of 0 influence.