Caine Prize Workshop 2014: Interview With Writer, Tendai Huchu
As promised, I am posting transcripts of my interviews with Zimbabwean writers and publishers as the Caine Prize for African Writing workshop happens this month in Zimbabwe. Below is an interview I...
View ArticleCaine Prize Writing Workshop 2014: Interview with Publisher, Jane Morris
amaBooks holds a lot of significance for me, personally, as the first publisher to accept my work aged 22. Every time Jane Morris (amaBooks co-founder) and I meet, the exchanges are effervescent and...
View ArticleEvery Scar Is A Story
For every scar, blemish and stretch mark on your skin, there is a cream or oil to remedy or get rid of it. Or so they tell us. But for every scar, blemish and stretch mark, there is an accompanying...
View ArticleAfrican Feminisms and Grant-Making: In Conversation with Amina Doherty
I had the great privilege this week to meet some powerful women from across Africa, and the world, at a meeting convened by Just Associates (JASS) to discuss among other things, feminist movement...
View ArticleSilence Does Not Suit Me
‘Conference hopper’. It is a term that I have been struggling to internalise. A put down that has cut straight to the core of me since I was fed an insight into some of the Harare gossip going around...
View Article‘When They Die Young’ by Ethel Irene Kabwato
It’s as if I have held you in my arms In this, your short life, But someone snatched you from me Because I wanted you to see the sun I wanted you to hold the dream And not to chase the wind Like a...
View ArticleHere Is My Body – For The 234 Missing Nigerian Girls
Here is my body, I’m giving it you to weigh on your market scales, to tell me the value of each pound of flesh; each coil and cuticle and cell of hair, skin, bone. You tell me you are making...
View ArticleTonight I Wrote To Heal Myself
Tonight I wrote. Finally. To one of the people who made my high school years hell. I wrote with clarity, without anger, without resentment. But with purpose. And then I let the emotions – the release,...
View ArticleGetting Over The Bullying Years by Ruvimbo Janet Tuwe
We were on a family holiday in the Eastern Highlands in December of 1998 when my father received a call that was redirected from his office in Bulawayo. It was pretty urgent since it was a prestigious...
View ArticleLast Night I Gave Myself A Phone Call by Zibusiso Mpofu
Last night I gave myself a phone call I wanted to purge myself Hear my own voice lulling me to sleep Telling me to keep faith and hang my tears to dry ‘’They called me a fag again today’’ I heard...
View ArticleI Don’t Like Weaves
I don’t like weaves. Don’t like the way 100% human hair – that is not 100% my own – feels as it pulls at my scalp and lashes against my neck. The way you have to flick it out of the way, tie it, clip...
View ArticleOn Reading ‘Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth’ by Warsan Shire
It is a cool crisp Saturday morning in bed. I have a backlog of reading to get through, which is always confusing and daunting to navigate. Which book is worth my time? Which one will make the effort...
View ArticleFor Mama H
Do you remember that Thursday evening we stayed up until 3 am? I came to your hotel room around 9 pm after a hectic week of running around, preparing presentations, facilitating sessions, checking in...
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