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Elizabeth: …Mambo! Nina hamu ya kusikia mengi kuhusu wewe Kristie. Tumeona kazi yako kama mhariri wa jarida la kifasihi, tumesikia pia jina lako katika jamii ya uandishi na inastaajabisha [...]

If you hear one say, That poetry is always there for them That it is what gets them up in the morning When they seem like the loneliest person in the whole world. When in this life’s realities, [...]

It was raining cats and dogs that morning. I witnessed pedestrians struggling to get to work with their big umbrellas and official attires. My friend Baraka stood beside me. “Hey sleepy head, why [...]

Everyone has their fears. Fear could cripple your mental nerves until you gasp for freedom. Growing up, my biggest fear was peer pressure. I had learned some of the good side and bad sides of it, [...]

My first close friend was a caramel-skinned, quiet girl. They were our neighbours, separated by a “ng’ombe” fence, rusted iron sheets and a feeble, tall lemon tree which never bore fruits. Her [...]

You sat your wretchedness on a bench built from the logs of bamboo placed parallel over forked stumps. Your red pupils were bloated with indignation, heart throbbing and hands trembling like an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It was Monday, 16th July, during the wet season of 2019, you skipped breakfast and first period to eat scotch eggs with your classmate in the school’s garden, knowing you were not supposed to. [...]

I was eleven, and I think I was still in the throes of blinding religion because, otherwise, I would never have allowed a thing like that. I was warm and quivering with malaria. I had sticky [...]