Sometimes 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…
Browsing: Jalada Africa
Quickie
A Sentence I Wish I Wrote; African Writers Confess
Quickie
#QUICKIES: 30-Word Flash Fiction
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…
Books
Bringing Literature to Life via Social Media
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…
Books
Jalada Africa So Far
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…
Books
Review: Jalada’s Afrofuture(s) Anthology
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…
Poetry
The Day You Walked Away
Have you ever seen a twig dry and frail – tossed about by wind on the river bank? I was, the day you walked from…