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In this Edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine, I had a chat with Stella Gonye Tshuma, the Zimbabwean author of Peace in the storm who currently resides in Namibia with her family. Read on [...]

29th November, 2009 Dear Diary, a burial service was held for Mr. Dumpson yesterday. I stood defiantly in the splattering rain. I stood there long enough to catch a cold as I watched his lifeless [...]

As I wandered in the forest nearby, I could feel the calmness that surrounded the place. It was almost magical. But then, magic is only possible when one is a child. I followed the common trail [...]

The weather today is foul. The earth seems to have taken a dreadful turn. Life is tinged with an inert kind of sorrow. The devil must be working overtime this June. My mind is going awry. There [...]

When I was 16, I dreamt of watching a sunrise on a new planet. It was a strange dream for someone of my circumstance to have, and I would not share it for quite some time. You see, I was born in [...]

Yesterday was the day we pushed ourselves Out of the childhood’ cradle Mama made with cozy velvet. Before we fell we carried our bag of dreams on our heads -pointing at each and every hand that [...]

There is an enemy confined on my left shoulder My village people say so In his presence, I sense absence My absence, our absence I know of cruelty and the brutality of men The hollowness the [...]

I tend to think That memories for me are like A sweater of various palette One that’s still being knit So when you pull one thread It all unravels You have to start over Or you consider it done [...]

A cold and moonlit night it was As my brain took a walk round town The laughter, the giggles, the nods, and frowns Hanging right there on the heart’s wall. Curtains of days Both weary and merry [...]

A bright night, the pangs of loneliness nudged, I sat in front of Yaya’s hut. Amazed by the beauty of the significant old star that twinkled like a firefly. the trees sang with cold breath and [...]