South Africa happens to be my dream destination in Africa It is the place where some of the most intriguing people and cultures of the continent are found If not for much, I just...

I’ll never forget the day it happened 13th September 2014 It was an unusually warm and sunny Saturday, considering it had been raining heavily for the past few weeks Why can’t...

Consider this; “despite our wheel, our plasma tablet and our tweets about the wrongs of those who rule, well, what of concrete-crumb Nairobi when these craters fire, the...

Just before going to the Writivism 2015 Workshop in Dar es Salaam, I wrote this post At the end I said “Sometimes people talk about writing and get so academic I just sit there,...

I was in the passenger seat, waiting defiantly for her to insist for the third time that I should strap in my seat belt I dislike anything that restrains me- be it promises or...

When the announcement was made for last year’s Caine Prize nominations, it was explicit about ‘looking for the next NoViolet Bulawayo’  Bulawayo won the prize in 2011 for...

I was with Mukundi and deMaitha on Tom Mboya Street when I saw it I have no idea how, given the jostling of pregnant women, dodging giant handbags and shaking off the street kids...

‘Blood speaks,’ the matriarch Bweeza tells her brother Kanani Kintu, reflecting on his futile attempts to break away from family bonds and the past As each of the characters...

When it begins, it is stupid most of the time It could be over a bottle of Coke at Wambugus Grove It could be in a matatu, in class or in Club RnB where broke college kids try to...

In the acknowledgements for her debut novel, Dust, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, concludes by saying: “Finally, thank you Kenya – my canvas, haunting, rage, passion, song, impulse,...

When this Americanah book first came out to glowing reviews and recommendations all over, I did not read it I did not want to be disappointed, because no one has the guts to...

Available on theMagunga Bookstore I was running late for this poetry shindig that I had helped put together I had told them to start without me, but I was on the way Somewhere in...