Harambee A hoe on a blank banner not the nationalist flag full of memorial symbolism without meaning may bring to doom the spirits of national angst in our...
Author - JKS Makokha
JKS Makokha is a Kenyan writer living in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Reading M.G. Vassanji: A Contextual Approach to Asian African Fiction (2009) and co-editor of a new volume on African literary criticism, Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore (2010) with Jennifer Wawrzinek. Makokha teaches courses in African and South Asian literatures at the Institut fur Englische Philologie at the Freie Universitat Berlin.
She…. She sits on the smaller square gravestone throwing tiny pebbles of fine firestone at me as she recites Quranic quatrains after a pause that follows...
I. Kilos of Bones How many bones will it take to construct our very own towering statue of liberty? How many kilos of bones, pure white primatish stones, will...
SONNETS I: ON A BEACH IN BERBERA In Berbera on sunny beaches of black sand Weekends of expatriates and the Berberawi Frolic freely, swim in low ebb or just...
Let Their Conscience Crack Their conscience will crack at last when the spirits of the moment when those citizens were roasted turn into the chronic nightmares...
On that night, the family of Papa 33 had to sleep in the damp cassava plantation near the stream behind their congested wattle huts. There was no choice. Zero...
Berbera al Somali The body of the ancient sea city bathes daily in the Gulf of Aden. Memories from the Holy Books of the wide open wounds of Job looms large in...
TJRC and Other Recent Thoughts We shall adequately browse on the lush plateau of genuine contrition when truth is all we tell at the TJR commission. We shall...
