“Mama, what are you doing here? I thought I told you not to come anymore? Why are you wasting the little money that you have to come and visit me here?” The...
Author - Asante Lucy Mtenje
Asante Lucy Mtenje is a twenty-six year old Malawian poet, short fiction writer, visual artist and literary scholar. Her artistic interest lies in bringing the invisible African woman to the center and giving her a voice. Asante is inspired by prolific writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ama Atta Aidoo, Toni Morrison and Stella Chipasula, just to mention a few. She has published several short stories as well as some of her poems in newspapers and on-line magazines.
Dying She sits on her desk, restless, tapping her fingers. Her mind numb. Her pen, her tongue still. She sits there, dying. Dying to let it all out. Her raging...
