Every time daddy issued her flowers, It wasn’t the sweet scent that kept her waiting. It was her waiting for the slightest sound of his voice, His noisy throat clearing And his deep voice that [...]
Many travelled far to see him like the great Ogotemmeli of Dogon he was a towering library of tales and like Akuku Danger of the East he was the patriarch of a vast clan children milled around [...]
This volume of twenty-two spiritual poems explores the agony of a wicked man’s sincere search to understand the imponderable abstractions of existence when God has not answered his cries and [...]
The African literary community is rejoicing as Malawian writer Temwani Mgunda, the esteemed winner of the 2022 African Writers Award in Poetry, is now set to embark on a transformative residency [...]
I sat there in silence, scared out of my wits with my heart thundering in my ears. This was what stage fright felt like, I thought to myself. The crowd cheered as they waited for my performance [...]
Aroma and skill, a part of my heritage, Unforgettable memories of songs and laughter on this stage, In its entirety, a space for storytelling and more, Memories of grandma, bonfires, and tales [...]
The flesh cracks and breaks free from its skeleton, And falls back to the ground where it belongs, Perhaps that is why I like mud houses; mud on mud, Not the stones from below imposed above. [...]
Sit with me in the cooking place of youth, while the mortar awaits tender tubers – you know the path to a happy heart before the pestle’s first taste of night. Long have I savoured the open [...]
They say once the sea casts its spell, it holds one in its net of wonder forever. Pearl wasn’t the only one trapped in this wondrous net, but her excitement outshone that of everyone else. It was [...]
I open my eyes. It’s morning already. I let out a long, widemouthed yawn and stretch, my bones aligning with my movements. I move to the window and pull the curtains apart, letting the brightness [...]