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We are pleased to announce the longlist for the following awards: 2022 African Writers Awards (AWA) Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature African Teen Writers Awards We received hundreds [...]

In this August edition, I had a chat with the multi-talented Makhago Peter, whose story, the millionaire orpahan won the 2021 Wakini Kuria prize for Children’s literature. Join me as I have a [...]

the ancient bell rings, in reminder of how things were, before chaos became King. now, things fall apart, as the darkest ironies of civilization surface, in an excellent wretch of madness! with a [...]

Rivers of blood and mountain of corpses Some-times caused by one man’s greed and ambitions They sing songs of glory Yet the battlefront is no place for glory Just death and pain Just sleepless [...]

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 [...]

Woke up to a burning world But not with a blue and yellow flame It was a slow, subtle, smouldering red One whose destruction nibbles quietly Eating the living, giving hearts of men Spitting out [...]

  The bullet openings on our wall clock refuse to heal, they worsen and keep us undone by ruin. here, bravery is synonymous to an unflinching life at the hands of grief. every day is a blood [...]

Back to bedlam Without a lamp Who will guide me In a sea of thoughts And a surge of taunts? I’m back to bedlam. A deep ebon night Holds my chest tight And drapes my mind Like a stone in a cave. [...]

When the sun goes down All the laughter fades away, My face on the mirror As I prepare my armour. Darkness has descended, And my heart is trembling. My mind is – Blown, by what I’m about to [...]

Under the foot of uncertainty faced with eyes of blurred reality accusing me of the things buried in the hallow field of the Garden of Eden — a place I come from where terror as a music, is sung [...]