There is an interesting conversation I saw on Facebook today. It is about the mockery and hostility between Africans of various cultural backgrounds, and towards Africans who do not quite [ … ]
Backwater Planet
There is something disturbing about how much progress humanity has made in science and technology, yet how little we have progressed as a human society. A common notion is for [ … ]
The Crabface Contract
The journal KUT asked me to submit a story for their latest issue, and so I submitted my new short story, The Crabface Contract. Today my short story got published, along with many [ … ]
The Huza Press Award Ceremony 2015
The first Huza Press Award Ceremony for the 2015 Short Story Prize happened last Friday, 4th September. It was an amazing evening, and an impressively well put together event! My [ … ]
Short Story Day Africa #WriterPrompt: Mon 20 July – Sun 2 Aug
The recently concluded Short Story Day Africa #WriterPrompt competition on Facebook had this photograph of rain falling on concrete, as the inspiration for 200-word limit flash fiction. Here is my submission:
Concept art for Jahida
The visual for the protagonist, Jahida, of my short story Devil’s Village is inspired by a drawing I did, in April 2015. My pencil drawing is a copy of Baby [ … ]
Before Devil’s Village (Chapter One)
My short story Devil’s Village, which was shortlisted for the Writivism 2015 Short Story Prize, is part of a novel I am working on. The Devil’s Village story actually takes [ … ]
The Boy Who Speaks To Trees
In the forest behind the other tree with the hole in it, the one with the hole in the ground behind it, the hole where the hairy things live, the [ … ]
Devil’s Village (Shortlisted for the Writivism 2015 Short Story Prize)
The cortical implant in my head was disconnected from all networks and my Heads-Up Display was offline. There were three Cleopatras on our flight and the Crew Chief’s Operations Protocol [ … ]
Hide your children
There is a daring wonder and imaginative outlook that powers the mind of a child, or a childlike mind. There are things in this world that are only visible to [ … ]