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Lise Nova Berwadushime interviews Mimi Machakaire, the Zimbabwean-born writer, journalist and publisher. Lise asks 9 questions which highlights Mimi’s journey through her creative writing career [...]

It’s alarming how many youths and even adults drift through life like leaves on water, devoid of purpose. They move aimlessly, lacking conscious direction or goals, resembling zombies in a silent [...]

With the exception of only a few tricks a human being can make, I reckon there is nothing as lethal as a good smile can be. There is just something irresistible about a beautiful smile, so much [...]

In a world embroiled by falsehood’s grasp, Where shadows dance and truth is clasped, Let us seek the light that pierces through a beacon of honesty, In a tapestry of life, where truth weaves its [...]

There lie tales encrypted on four walls, Where memories waft forth, Like the smoke of steamed bread, On a Sunday night. Visible to touch but slipped through if we tried. There lie tales encrypted [...]

Writers Space Africa (Lesotho Chapter) has been awarded a $10,000 grant by the Global Fund for Children (GFC) to run a National High School Debate in the Kingdom of Lesotho. This project will run [...]

The class was dead silent. I sat stiffly with my chest puffed out. Clutching and rubbing perspiration off my palms. Brother Richard moved to and fro; seething with anger which made his whole body [...]

To where would the soles of my feet lead? Neither here nor there, I hope for merry-making a distance from the home of nostalgia. What could halt new memories from being made, while old ones were [...]

Oh! I float like a helium balloon at a poetry-fest Breath of syllables, how can a poet ever rest? For explorers, fulfilment lies at Mount Everest Like that bold badge on a veteran’s weary chest. [...]

Nights black as crows summon relics; floating phantoms of our fallen fathers. Twigs from protection rituals give birth to smoke of breath-taking introspection. Can we sever the ties that link us [...]