This is the year that people will talk about
This is the year that people will be silent about
The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die.
The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky …
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Rain Did This
Some of us are fine sitting on the small steps to our small jobs. I was always fine with it. You could find me on the doorsteps to Malkia Boutique on any given day save Sunday. But that rainy Dar …
Publisher’s Deposition: The Famished Dick and the Wicked of the Earth
I quite understand that it is unusual for a publisher to write an introductory preface to a novel. But the circumstances of this novel are so unusual that I am compelled to author this note to the reader. There are …
Getting Down to Business
Like Every Black Mother
Cinema Verité: Scenes From the City
a PechaKucha in prose
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You are still in the doldrums, working your way towards the American dream. Months later and you haven’t made much progress in the way of an airfare. Time is slipping away, threading its way through …
Fly
Translated by Adil Babikir
The force commissioned to deal with the matter is made of sixty-six soldiers, and an army of skilled and semi-skilled carpenters who were assembled by force from Nyala, Kaas, and Zalingei. It is more than enough …
Naomi
Susu
Translation by the author
(Rukiga original follows the English, below)
You are coming from your friend’s. It is Sunday. The date is the 9th of August. You have spoken about the far and near, you have indeed nattered. Y’know …
The Armed Letter Writers
* Winner of a 2018 Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing *
It all started with a letter, slapped smack in the middle of our street sign. It was Uncle Ermu who saw it, …
