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Trapped in the same four cornered walls with my random thoughts of villains, I know little of, I peer through the shades wondering if there was a knock on my door, a nosy neighbor maybe wanting [...]

Nine months, preciously carried in your womb So resplendent as a rose you abloom Your care helps me groom My idol, I cherish you For your selflessness I survive Famished, only for me to be alive [...]

I teeter towards the blinding light Tissue and muscle tear and cleave To usher me out, From this nursery within An alien in foreign land I shriek Letting through gusts of bloody air To pierce my [...]

One bright morning, the pupils in grade one were modelling. As they made different items, teacher Jane, the deputy headteacher walked into the classroom. The pupils stood. Teacher Jane greeted, [...]

Welcome to another interesting edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine. This month, we will be chatting with the winner of the 2021 African Writers Award (Drama category). Let us welcome [...]

A long time ago, a cheerful, ever-smiling girl was born in the village of Ihithe, Nyeri in Kenya, East Africa. Wangarĩ Maathai was her name. As she grew up, Wangarĩ loved to help her mother when [...]

The black Caterpillar looked at his brothers who were green in colour and wondered whether he belonged with them or not. On seeing that he was the odd one out, he decided to venture on his own, [...]

On the 29th of September, one bright Sunday morning as Marie and Anne were preparing for church, they came across a letter addressed to them. The two girls got excited. They had received letters [...]

In accord we live, in the face of vicissitude, we prevail This is our rhapsody of optimism for a people Whose reality they presume a burst-up. Their rather passé summation; our motivation for [...]

My friends say I’ve got the hand of a poet, But my, this long I didn’t know it, Now what shall become of my wasted years? I mourn my ignorance in tears. Searching for my gift, I joined the church [...]