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Open your ears, listen to the doleful wailing Open your hearts, empathize with the world Open your eyes, look within See the pandemonium slicing through Mother Earth Don’t you have a heart for [...]

Sheila peeped through the aeroplane window and all she could see were puffy clouds. She felt as if she had been flying forever. She did not want the aeroplane to land in Bamako, she wanted it [...]

I got marooned on the Smiling Coast. There I met an African beauty, “Habari Yako,” she said, Rattling off rich melodious languages. Her Ashanti outfit had the value of gold. It was stunningly [...]

Once upon a time I was a wee-nipper There a plucky woman Who always was on hand to satiate my thirst? A tenacious woman of virtue, She weathered my boyhood storms Sparing my blushes when I erred [...]

He wiped his brow, and paced back and forth, shouting gibberish. Sbo looked around at everyone. They all had their eyes closed, their hands in the air. Some had tears streaming down their cheeks. [...]

Mother’s scent smells, oh so divine! Smells of power, beauty and confidence; intertwined. She buys only the expensive fragrances, Her bedroom aroma lingers with her favourites. My nose twitches [...]

In this February edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine, we bring you Nathaniel Ziphoezinhle Mpofu, a multi-award-winning author of several books, librarian at the Bulawayo Public Library, [...]

The three 13-year-olds, Bessie, Khulekani and Turnaya asked the Queen to give them the same bed-chamber. Right now if they followed her generosity to split up in such a big castle with countless [...]

It is an organic truth that living organisms are constantly striving to be that which shapes their desire to be influential and powerful. Power is an intrinsic will to be or to become recognized, [...]

During my first week in high school, the word photosynthesis sounded very foreign and too complex for me to grasp. It was a vocabulary that perplexed students from school to home and vice versa, [...]