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My mind has been on young people, given what is going on in the country. Youngsters in schools cannot be contained. As the only professor of literary communication in East Africa, I have spent most of my life studying and writing stories.
Literature has always fascinated me because I know that stories shape how human beings understand themselves and the world around them. The stories we tell our children influence their values and even their understanding of what it means to be human.
We must pay close attention to the stories our children consume. Whoever controls the stories they hear ultimately shapes their minds. That is why we should also examine what pornography communicates to young audiences.
In many ways, it is a form of storytelling about the body and human relationships, about love, power, intimacy, masculinity, femininity and desire. The difference is that literature deepens our understanding of human experience, while pornography often reduces people to objects of gratification. Literature humanises; pornography objectifies.
