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I knew I had to leave this place; I could not take it anymore. I hurriedly packed the few things I had come with inside a yellow nylon, as I didn’t want it to seem evident to the nosy neighbours [...]

I’ve always loved the rain. My mother says it rained heavily on the day I was born, thunderclaps eclipsing the sounds of her agonising wails as she pushed me into the cruel reality I’ve come to [...]

The word Misery is thrown around so often these days, one can argue that it has lost all meaning. Misery is basically defined as a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or [...]

You watch Richard drape his hand across Ajuma’s shoulder, his fingertips playing with the flayed sleeve of her Ankara blouse, it’s the casual way of one who is familiar with her body. He [...]

In a copper- nickel mining town, where black smoke from the mines greeted the mornings and the blast of dynamites shook the town to sleep every evening, Ujeura stayed with his grandmother. Uje’s [...]

Come take me quick From these jumbled jungle jaws Of hypo-critic ferret in the burrow A bestial barbarian. I saw her quaff a hunk Imparting intoxicating amalgam In the candle lit galarious table [...]

I dream of a new age; A new era Where misery is not embraced. An age of happiness Where love reigns- Where man understands true strength; Where “pinning” a woman is not “An [...]

Strolling on the margins of orbiting flames Helplessly with hands too short for a hand The petals are drying off in excess sorrow And tears are dripping irresistibly Blown is the joy, sinking [...]

St John Kay had a mind rubbing exercise with the editors of the WSA N Anthology “Rebirh”. Here is the first of the series. Helen Ciloux writing in the classic Sorties (1975) says that it is [...]

Have you ever been infected by someone’s personality? Wait until you hear or read about Wakini Kuria. Everyone who talks about her encodes her personality into their words and it is [...]