An Obituary for Footwear
around him were stacked books in an African language more ancient than English read on…
Category: Memoir
The Man of God and the Mango Tree
I am trying to save the life of a mango tree, not very successfully. My carpenter cannot come today, maybe tomorrow, he says. I ask him why, and he explains that read on…
The Nairobi Dispatches (2) (The Love Stories of Ladan Osman)
On Saturday, 20th September, I was catching my breath in Storymoja’s Artists’ Lounge in Nairobi’s National Museum when Beverley Nambozo insisted that we attended Njeri’s panel. Njeri Wangari had read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (7)
Even his own mother didn’t recognise him… read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (6)
a subversive cartoon is no way to repay a generous host… Stick with a formal photograph, don’t put thoughts into Mr. President’s head… read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (5)
‘I see it now,’ said Jack Mapanje, to Msiska Mpalive… read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (4)
The Road Not Taken: fluent nations invigorated by an acquisition of an international language without the loss of their indigenous. read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (3)
‘God created woman from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it’ . read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (2)
Mohammed would probably have saved himself some camels if Nigerian technology had been incorporated into the Somali bridal process… read on…
Revisiting Hargeisa (1)
And so it was that in August I paid my second visit to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in time to attend the 7th Hargeisa International Book Fair. The theme was ‘Imagination’, read on…