Sipho’s phone trembles on the floor when we hear the car hoot outside and I’m ripe for the Hill trip because my roommate and I have waited for weeks. Sipho...
Author - Abenea Ndago
Abenea Ndago is a Kenyan writer/scholar. He has published Voices (2017), Crossing the Border (2018), Lord Kitchener (2023), and several short stories.
Suddenly he falls and rubs in the dust when the policeman unties his hands. He cries aloud. I gasp. I too want to cry. I hold Mama’s blue dress tightly with my...
Rocha Chimerah received his B. Ed and M. Ed degrees from the University of Nairobi and his PhD in Linguistics and Language Education from Ohio University in...
Henry ole Kulet grew up in a village called Enkare-Ngusur in Narok district, Kenya. When the colonial government ordered that all boys be sent to school, his...
Namwali Serpell. Born in Lusaka, Zambia. The ethereal forms a distinctive layer of her prose and her writing is delicate and brittle in a rich and rewarding...
Tendayi is a Zimbabwean friend I met here in Toxteth, Liverpool, when I left Mombasa and followed my sister Mishi one year after she married Mr. Golightly...
There is no guessing what stand Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, and J.M. Coetzee would take in the current Kenyan crisis, where a proscribed...
Before Neighbour arrives with an angry breath and shouts across the fence we are feeding our eyes on the black-red patches on our ox’s strong hide. They are...
I will remain silent in case Mama asks why I am late. Mama has always said that children my age only laugh when a mjusi lizard tickles the inside of their...
Stakeholders in the book industry are agreed that Kenya suffers from poor reading culture, and that the situation ought to be righted. One of the areas which...
Before it happened and we saw the animal crying, it was the earth that began dancing under our feet. We stood on the mat after eating the night meal. The whole...
This morning: We are in our late sixties. But we still look like energetic young men. Now we wear orange uniforms. We tie our headgears tightly. I know God...
