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Writing in the Field…
Fiction writing comes alive with a lot of creativity. Be it prose or poetry, the creativity which a writer weaves into it, is often sparked or ignited. One of the triggers for creative writing I know...
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I wanted the Queen back, but now the King is gone!
Picture from http://www.ezakwantu.com Dear Madiba, I wonder why I did not get into the social media excitement of mourning you! After a deep introspection at the wave and frenzy given to your demise...
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Who is an African?
We become a ghost when we have no identity, this is true. But choosing our identity can mean sitting on the horns of a dilemma where we struggle to fit into many social boxes that just don’t fit our...
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Am I colour-blind or is it a grey street?
fictioningdevelopment:Today, Billions of People are participating in the One Billion Rising Campaign. ‘One Billion Rising’ is a global campaign to end to violence against women, rise for justice and...
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Africa’s Third Liberation
It’s midnight Saturday 15th of March 2014, some families stayed awake with grief stricken faces. Close to twenty of their young graduates who left them that morning for the National Immigration Service...
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Writing Violence…
While working on a short story on domestic violence recently, I was privileged to get a colleague review it. ‘It lacks suspense, no action, not gripping, it fell flat like a biography’, this was his...
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Is Sizwe Bansi Dead?
When a piece of writing gets you a space in jail, then it stroke a very sensitive cord for the incumbent government. The texture of such writing, are absurd, dealing with surreal subject matters....
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Do They Hear When You Cry?
Oasis Academy Hadley #FightforYashika Campaign For many social causes that make headlines these days, there is an individual at the center to humanize it. In most cases they enjoy the support of their...
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Black Boy!
Every time I read Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy’, I wished it was fiction; fiction because ‘Black Boy’ is not a pretty book. This reality told from the eye of a teenage black boy was too disturbing to...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha shares the journey of how Chiyo-Chan, the young girl from the Seashores of Yoriodo, born in the year of the monkey, with so much water in her personality became Nita Sayuri the...
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