Daymares at Midnight – Mukonya Mukonya Frets; it’s approaching fast Sweats; she thinks she is cursed Hates the advent of dusk. She knows she’s insomniac He’ll still…
Hole in My Heart – Lewis Wamwanda
Hole in My Heart – Lewis Wamwanda When I was growing up Every dawn I’d wake up And I’d throw stones at a woman Who was always at our gate….
The Heart Wants What It Wants – Edith Knight Magak
The Heart Wants What It Wants – Edith Knight Magak The heart pounds fast. In sync with the thrumming moves its owner is making. They are matching beat for beat…
My Choice – Cate Nyabuti
My Choice – Cate Nyabuti Mother, father, and the man I should marry Like old friends sit by the fire Taking in the warmth; sipping on their cups…
Hello Wapenzi! Here she is in all her splendour; the Sultan’s yacht docked on the Mombasa harbour. WSA Kenya is her name, held in the cursive arms of…
Love in Your Meditation
Isaac Kilibwa – Yitzhak Gate I grew up in Dandora, a Nairobi Ghetto estate where all we ever heard was Hip Hop and Roots. G – Unit, The Game, Eminem,…
Technology Robbed Us Blind…
It was in 2005 when the information technology course became more popular than the famed medicine course. Young tucks at the time thought they had made it as it was…
LOVE IS YOU DEAD
Love is you on your death bed; in your final hour, surrounded by flushed crying eyes of helpless loved ones. It’s that moment when your breaths are measured- each one…
COLOURS
‘Hi’ ‘Hi’ ‘I’m Josephine.’ ‘Josephine?’ ‘Yes, Josephine, like Bonaparte’s wife.’ ‘I see..’ ‘I don’t look like a Josephine?’ ‘Josephines are not so bold.’ He literally bared his teeth or it…
SILENCE
She was lying on the floor, white tiles glistening like a newly oiled baby, clutching her stomach her bony hands pressed against it. She was sick, sick to the core,…