KANSIIME ONESMUS

WRITING AND CONTEXT kansmus@gmail.com Hello readers. Having discovered, from our writing trainees and those who approach us at writers’ hub 256, that there is need for them and other writers to understand what context in writing is, below is a simple break down to help you understand why and how to incorporate context in our pieces of writing. According to Fellowes and Oakley 2014, “writing is the use of language to compose text for the purpose of communication language.” The field of writing is diverse in style, situation and purpose. In each of its specialties, writers are called to a gradual process of appreciating the broad base of knowledge to be effective writers. Writing, like any other mode of communication, has the important element called CONTEXT. Context is one of the four cardinal components of writing that include context itself, text form, the process of writing and conventions. But among these, context is everything to define the when, where, who, w...

I WALKED WITH CORONAVIRUS TO MOMBOKOLO: Coronavirus and the world’s RURAL kansmus@gmail.com Yet there is hope in the fight against coronavirus: Not a subject to statistics for reason suggests that objections will be fallacies on logic. The destruction authored by COVID19 thrust on my countryside Mombokolo is identical to the conditions of a battle between a legless one eyed hare and a lion that neither suffered a toothache nor broke its paws. Scene: This follows a story of my two days’ 60 km walk to the deeper countryside. The walk that presented me a do or die menu of jumping fences, swimming across streams, climbing trees just to set foot on the next stony hill, negotiating a lonely thorny slope and wallowing through a forbidden swampy valley all with the features of the never-never land void of call or radio signals. The lifting and resting of feet, the falling rivers of sweat and the Boston terriers dog likened panting were neither related to the famous ‘L...