We’ve learnt the art of pain. We’ve known from a young age that it would be a part of us forever. This, as much as..
Yejide Kilanko’s stunning debut novel, Daughters Who Walk This Path, offers a sad and telling reflection of the grim realities experienced by girls who suffer..
If one prods the origins of most great works of art, one will find they were created to exorcise or archive a memory. Okigbo does..
“I am gathering every dying piece of this body into a song and gifting it to the wind again, I am driftwood floating in the..
I have not read any meaning of blood that is complete, but the many meanings when they come together become one complete verse of belonging...
“For decades, black parents have told their children that in order to succeed despite racial discrimination, they need to be twice as good, twice as..
Today is a Saturday & I’m in bed; I have not been in bed all day but I am now. In Ghana, Saturdays are for..
(For kindred spirits who waved goodnight at dawn) I tune in from old Warri because Nimisire is on air. She has just finished leading..
The best memory I have of my time at the Kenya Utalii College Campus was their 4 o’ clock tea. Utalii is the Swahili word..
It is usually argued that historians record and novelists create. It, therefore, requires intent, deftness in fictionalisation, and a diligent writer’s temperament to create a..
