I hate eulogies. Like political campaign speeches, they’re fancy, empty words seldom reflecting the true feelings of the speaker for the deceased. Why speak this flowery language to the dust if it was unspoken between breaths? Why compose beautiful odes to yesterdays that can’t be appreciated by the muse? We rely on the living for that.
Read MoreHis heart pounded so hard he couldn’t hear the TV. With the force of a pestle striking a mortar, it threatened to burst through his chest as he retrieved the proposal from his safe. Sweat dotted the area his moustache would have covered had his barber not wheedled him into shaving it off last weekend.
Read MoreNairobi wins the prize for greenery with its acres of vegetation. Its verdancy is credited to the late environmentalist and Nobel prize winner Wangari Maathai, whose organisation Green Belt Movement planted tens of millions of trees.
Read MoreThe East African country truly lives up to its ‘Land of a thousand hills’ nickname. Enveloping Kigali, Rwanda's capital, and beyond, are verdant, terraced hills standing in juxtaposition with clear, blue skies as proof of nature’s majestic artistry.
Read MoreAyòbámi Adébáyò’s Bailey’s-shortlisted, debut novel Stay With Me is an engaging story about the pressures a childless couple encounters in contemporary Nigeria, where children—more than love—are often deemed the centripetal force of a marriage.
Read MoreBoniface Mwangi, Kenya’s political firebrand and award-winning photojournalist, was thrust into the limelight in 2007 when his photos—documenting the horrors of his country’s post-election violence—were broadcast by news outlets around the world. Now, he runs for a seat in Parliament.
Read More“The window was one of many, the town was one. It was the only one, the one I left behind,” reads the epigraph in Teju Cole’s debut novel Every Day is for the Thief. Written like a travel diary, the story pieces together the unnamed narrator’s perception of Lagos after a long absence.
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