Whatever evil spirit told me to go to High Court that Friday evening must have been sent by someone who does not see for me well I could have just stayed at home and chilled with...

At the age of six, I was learning to use the words uncle and aunty loosely They didn’t necessarily have to mean a blood relative, but rather someone who spent their time a lot...

As if being an early teenager is not complicated enough, you just had to be different You deal with the normal confusions of what it means to grow into yourself - hairs where none...

Towards the end of the turbulent forties, men came back from the great war slinging more than just gun They came with guitars too They came with music They were African soldiers...

When you start approaching 30, it feels like everything is closing in on you Life develops a certain urgency to it Wherever you look, people start talking about what you should or...

The call came in when I was at my cousin’s place It was during those early days of the pandemic when tissue paper was more valuable than common sense, curfew was at 7pm, and the...

There was a time when phones had memories smaller than a pup’s Mine was a hand me down from my elder brother; a Nokia that opened up like a laptop, with a keypad arranged just...

When I think about it, the most pivotal moments of my career have been shaped by someone asking me, “Can you sing” The first one was Chizi Everyone knew Chizi It was hard to...

Your heart doesn’t immediately stop when you’re dying I would never have known this, had I not almost died If anything, it drops, like a feather blown gently by the wind...

As a young kid growing up, you go about doing the things growing up kids do You are a little troublemaker It comes with the territory But the constitution is very clear You go...

That is not how he had thought he would die It is not even the place he thought he would be when he finally returned his soul to its owner above Granted, he had not really thought...

It’s always hot The heat is unprecedented We sweat all the time, without the privileged benefit of air conditioning or rainfall You can’t really get comfortable This is what...