Lights that glimmer in dimness
Lighting is a lot of things for me, it is feeling, a mood and a memory of a story that is stored in my mind and in my poetry. I am fascinated by how light in spaces, be it...
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Writing black people in House of Hunger
House of Hunger is a compilation of stories, set in pre-colonial Zimbabwe, that are hard to separate from the life and feeling of the writer himself. In this book Dambudzo Marechera excruciatingly brings out through vivid imagery, in prose...
The path that knows
This is story is about a broken man who has to search for hope after a tragic incindent and walks the footsteps of a stranger, dealing with the weight of his loss. A man once motivated by his struggle...
Meine Blaues Wünder, reading der Räuber Hotzenplotz
So as a first step to understanding the German language I decided to start reading German children’s story books and to my luck I began with the very interesting story by the Otfried Preußler called the ‘Räuber Hotzenplotz’ ....
Oil on Water, a look into the tragic story of the Niger Delta
Oil and Water by Helon Habila is a book chronicles the story of two journalists, a reluctant mentor and a willing mentee, along their search for a kidnapped white woman in the heart of the Niger Delta islands....