Music, Football and Cockfights: A Kenyan Childhood
‘Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to bliss.’ – Lord Baden Powell I was born in Nyeri County, Kenya, on William Shakespeare’s birthday. I didn’t know I shared a birthday with…
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Memories as Crevices Entombed with Loss
It is the kind of evening where the air is unmoving and frozen by heat. The absence of your creaking fan reminds you that there has been no power…
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Juju is Orange
Chukwuokike, sometimes, Fada doesn’t help us quickly. He asks us to believe a lot, and we don’t see much. Medical center doesn’t heal us quickly, either. Some things seem…
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Les Choses Qui Arrivent Aux Autres or The Problems of Other People
Afu was startled by the screams of his most trusted associate, the one who saved him from punishment at school every morning: his old alarm clock. His eyes opened,…
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For Boys Who are the Colour of Water
i The first time Papa saw pornographic videos on my phone ended in tears. For seven weeks he whipped my bare back until they bled blood and water. He…
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Sisi, When You Go Get Sense?
Despite the fact that you’d sworn before his face with sand in your tongue that you would never, never step your foot into his compound ever again, you…
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Much Alike
One day, I woke up with the moon in my eyes, glasses of smiles to map which way my window blinds will face. When I opened my chest and read…
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