”In our media, this is increasingly manifest though, for instance, the daily ignorance of a part of speech called ‘articles’. In English, they are two, ‘the’ and the indefinite, ‘a’,” he wrote, in an uncharacteristically hash indictment of the Kenyan media. ”As a reporter or sub-editor, please remember that what you are working for is an English-language medium. I do not buy the self-defeatism with which we habitually explain away our mediocrity in English: ‘Oh, it is not my mother tongue”’, he wrote. Ochieng emphasized that it was possible to master English even if you are not native English. Mr. Majani
“Mimi lugha naijua sana, nimesoma kozi ya miezi mitatu, mwalimu alikuwa anakuja nyumbani kwangu kunifundisha, ukitaka kujua mimi najua kuzungumza lugha hiyo unikute kiwanja cha ndege nimechelwa ndege halafu nina show au ninapokuwa mezani nataka kuzungumza na wazungu kwa ajili ya kusaini mikataba lakini siwezi kuongea kwa kila mtu ili kudhihirisha kama naweza kwakuwa hakuna aliyenisaidia kulipa ada”, alisema Shilole.