Sometimes we fail our friends because we think we are protecting them.
Year: 2020
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The Painful Journey of Reuniting with my ‘Frenemy’
This is the story of my suffering from depression in a non-depressing way. Let us learn to listen to our friends, relatives and colleagues. We might be the source of their peace of mind and we could help them to get out of depression.
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The Killing Power of Words
Many bartenders are better listeners than men of the cloth.
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Bleeding through the Pen: Fears of a Pained Soul
Should we wait to be buried with our thoughts? Or for our thoughts to bury us?
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Stripped Naked: My Writing and Publishing Journey
Though teenage and young adulthood are such a difficult time for one to write his or her story, I encourage young people to document their life experiences.
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Modern Writers Must Engage in Penmanship and Politics
Literary practitioners should not exclude themselves from the socio-political battlefield. They have to revive the relationship between writing and politics.
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No One—Not Anything—Needs a Name
Why would we reject names by a colonial namer and accept those of a neo-colonial one? Why would we sanitise the heathenness of misnaming on racial lines?
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The Healing Power of Personal Stories
Self-doubt clouds our ability to write personal stories, particularly when we are still young or when our life stories include details and memories that we would rather keep to ourselves for ever.
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Debates on the ‘Father’ of African Literature are Patronising and Sickening
Even if we were to entertain for a moment the idea of a father of African literature, the yardstick wouldn’t be hinged on ‘pioneer’ credentials more than it would rest on the breadth and depth of the writer’s corpus.
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Let’s Erase Colonial Names from our Natural and Cultural Heritages
Our glorification of European names for our natural and cultural monuments reeks of colonial hangover.
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