ometimes I find myself reading stories from books, blogs, social media posts, newspapers, poems (not as much) etc and feeling jealous of the people who wrote them I read lines...

If brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then just how many words does a writer need to tell a story I asked a few writers this question The responses ranged from 4000 to 200 words...

Originally published in the Sunday Nation on 14th June 2015 Most of us spend a lot of our time on the internet, all thanks to the advent of affordable smart phones, power banks...

Originally published by The Sunday Nation Newspaper When the Jalada Africa’s second anthology, Sext Me, came out last year, I shared Linda Musita’s Kudinyana on my Facebook...

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...

Have you ever seen a twig dry and frail – tossed about by wind on the river bank I was, the day you walked from me: an apple tree you had tended and plucked daily as the...