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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Loyola and the Home of Flourishing Faunae
CHIDIEBUBE ONYE OKOHIA “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” I stepped into the wilderness when I arrived Loyola compound along Old Ife Road, Agodi,…
Africa’s Politicisation of Slavery and the Derivatives of Racism: A Case Study of George Floyd
ALEXANDER OPICHO George Floyd, a black man of fourty-six years, and a father of two children in Minneapolis, attempted to con a tobacco and wine store owner by trying to…