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Goodbye Cicely Tyson, you are a testimony for the hope impaired – A poem
Born in the fountain of patriarchyWhen a woman was for the eyeNot for the ear, but still you roseAbove the dark times of racismUnto the poor black women in AmericaYou soared above wiles of blind hatredTo...
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The uncanny resemblance of Ousmane Sembene’s and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s literary struggles
The young generation in Kenya is aware of Ngugi wa Thiong’o as the father of written literature. They are not aware of his contemporaries in the intellectual and literary struggle for truth, justice...
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Homage to Ras Kimono, the Under Pressure crooner
Nigeria and Kenya share a lot of things in common. Some bits of Nigerian history looks like Kenyan. For example, during the nineties of the last century, life was very difficult in Nigeria just as it was...
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Chimamanda is right, biracial Meghan Markle will make the Commonwealth relevant
Recently, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was in a public conversation with Hillary Clinton where she faulted Hillary for identifying herself on her Twitter page as a wife, a mother and grandmother when Bill...
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Black writer wins America’s top children’s literature prize
Jacqueline Woodson, the dreadlock-wearing dark-skinned African-America writer of children literature is the winner of Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for 2018. Jacqueline Woodson Woodson was born in 1963...
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Corruption in Kenya is more biological than legal
Kenya, like any other developing country, is challenged in its politics, governance, and public sector economics due to the social vice of corruption. In developing countries, most central government...
