Essays

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A poem is born

Don’t bother deciphering the title of a poem. The best poems are inspired by the concrete, by the tangible, by the touchable. Good titles to good poems arise...
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Silhouettes

While everyone got excited about the completion of Thika Highway because of its aesthetic appeal or that it would take less time to move about, I was busy getti...
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At the body shop

Because of the internet I know many things about the graphic artist DJ Ndebele. I know he’s not a DJ, nor is he from the Ndebele tribe. I know that despite ...
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Writing

I often say that I live in my head but in essence, it is the writer in me who does. She finds the tools for her writing in my mind and she creates scenarios and...