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Mola jalia karima, limwengu isha kwa hima Waja tupewe hekima, tuishi pasi na hila Dunia yote tambuka, ‘nadamu kupata shima Limwengu umeshajaa, madhira kila nam’na Vilio vyatapakaa, sakafuni na [...]

Nikitazama dunia, moyoni nahuzunika, Sina la kujivunia, hata kule Amerika, Tena najihurumia, kwayo yanayotendeka. Redio ‘kisikiliza, ni balaa na beluwa, Televisheni chunguza, uonayo si muruwa, [...]

Dunia meli ulingo, wacheza wanopambana, Mapigo ndani ya kingo, vishindo kuvurugana, Tete kwacho cha mpingo, nguvu hazijawiana, Halibari siyo shwari, bahari chombo mrama. Wateseka waliyomo, [...]

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 [...]

Vumbi la mahangaiko, na kelele za uchovu Hunitia hamaniko, kuzidi ukakamavu Leo niko kesho siko, mambo yataka utuvu Siku huanza, kwa makelele na vishindo Dunia ni mzunguko, haitaki udumavu Tete [...]

Some said one among the village folks had angered the gods by not offering the yearly sacrifice to our god, Leza. Some had the impression that someone had somehow woken some dark spirits of dead [...]

She is a creature of the wild, a raptor. Men in the village called her, “a monster”, For when she devoured a herd of beasts, there remained no traces of bones. It is hunger that drives her. In [...]

She comes slowly as a newcomer Knocking on the door, only to open And host a strange stranger, but she comes You can’t disagree, but to resist. She knows no champion, sick or children She visits [...]

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 [...]

And at the end of the day, The photos of the day come to play. As the day ends, After the sun kisses our skins; mine and yours my friend! I think of the kind of person I’d been, Think of the love [...]