Artist: Barbara Adair Country: South Africa Barbara Adair is a South African novelist and sometime travel-writer. She teaches human rights law and global democracy at the University of the Witwatersrand. She lives in the city of Johannesburg and rural Limpopo, urban and rural lifestyles influence. Her first novel In Tangier we Killed the Blue Parrot [read more…]
When I look on a fellow blackman And imagine him tilling On a land faraway Naked For no pay The scars awaken We battle tears When we open history books To see black bodies being transported across seas of pages Their bells chiming sad songs as they walk From one continent to the next From [read more…]
Two weeks ago, I moved into this single room in Progressive area, Githurai Forty-Five. Wacha nikwambie, hassle za single room ni nyingi – from disagreements over who gets to fetch water at the tap first (the one who was first in line or the one whose jerrycan was in line first), to this neighbour who [read more…]
Mwarv is a self-trained photographer who received a Diploma in Graphic Design from BIFA in 1999, and worked in advertising for 10 years. Skills gathered when working in advertising have helped him communicate stories more effectively in the photography projects he undertakes.
Amanda told me that her lips know the taste of poverty, Like Nelson Mandela knew the way to liberty, And that’s why she gives everything to charity. But I told her that, You can only know what poverty tastes like, If your mama, ever sacrificed the only ugali she’d earned, So you could have something [read more…]
The night air was still, not a cloud in the sky. He moved stealthily, taking cover in the long shadows created by the moon’s illumination on the various buildings on the homestead. Surely, everyone was asleep at this time, he thought. Every few steps he would stop and listen. He would take no chances. How [read more…]
Nyana Kakoma is a Ugandan writer, editor, blogger, and publisher who lives in Kampala. She created the online platform Sooo Many Stories that promotes Ugandan literature. (See More)
Abigail Arunga is a writer, editor, columnist, scriptwriter and the author of two poetry books, Akello, and A Side of Raunch.
She is a 2011 honours graduate of USIU, and an old girl of The Kenya High School. (See More)
Something was wrong. She had known it the moment she’d called his mobile and heard that female automated voice: “The number you have dialed is currently unavailable”. His phone was always on – unless he was sleeping. And he never went to sleep without calling her first. Making a split second decision, she picked up [read more…]
The Sand and Tree Monkeys Slippery Tree Forest. The Neo-Nazis & Ultra-Nationalists C/o Trump Acolytes Ok, there’s nothing funny about drowning, unless it’s a cartoon character trying to prevent that last bloop of air in the mouth from escaping (the soul attached to it like it were a weather balloon.) But then drowning is faster [read more…]
