Violence Knows Me By Name
Violence found me far from the protest ground in my home where I was trying, and failing, to watch movies from my laptop. I was in the police station last…
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When Green Leaves Wither
1. Emeka, Most friendships do not start in the most flattering way. There is no outburst of mirthful laughter or the ravishing communion of a shared experience. Some just start…
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This Certain Kind of Blessedness
Say autumn. Say Autumn despite the green in your eyes. Beauty despite daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Ocean Voung, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” It is matriculation…
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Restoring Marginalised Voices: A Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Author: Akwaeke Emezi Book title: The Death of Vivek Oji Publisher: Riverhead Books Place of publication: New York Year of publication: 2020 Number of pages: 178 Reviewer: Nzube Nlebedim I…
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Why do Ugandans Accept to Sell Themselves as Slaves to Kenya?
In Nairobi, there is an estate known as Eastleigh (also referred to as Isili in the local language). In this estate, there are many powerful Somali businessmen, most of them…
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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 the…
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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 for…
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Examining Racial-Based Extra-Judicial Killings in America: Amadou Diallo to Jacob Blake
ALEXANDER OPICHO The YouTube video clips showing how the white-American policemen shot Jacob Blake, a black man, are very troubling. They conjure all sorts of feelings of distaste; it is…
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The South African Experience and Protest Poetry: A Reading of Zindzi Mandela’s “I Saw As A Child” and “I Have Tried Hard”
NNADUBE JONATHAN EJIOGU Zindzi’s poems titled “I Saw as a Child” and “I Have Tried Hard,” construct clearly the situation of apartheid in the textual society which, of course, assumes…
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From Soyinka, Achebe to Ojaide: Issues in Nigerian Literature
GANIU MUMIN The literature of Nigeria can be linked to the historical events that form the corpus of experience that Africa and its people encountered. Africa has witnessed many events…
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