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THE SHADOWS OF SHIWANG’ANDU
Omniscient Narrator It was a sunny day, and the sky was a brilliant blue, with only a few puffy white clouds drifting lazily across the horizon. The sun shone brightly, […] More
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The Importance of Staring Down Babies
CV UPDATE New Skill: Staring down babies. 100% success rate to-date. Potential Uses: 1. Getting babies to do what you want, like STFU, eating food, sleeping, shitting in […] More
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‘Morning Has Broken’ by Dave Ndyanabo
She looked so peaceful. Nothing looked amiss. She cut the most tranquil picture of sleeping beauty if ever there was one. Except she wasn’t sleeping. She was dead. Interesting that […] More
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A Moving Mine
Part 1: Beneath the surface It was a beautiful normal day in Kwesele village, a home in the northwestern part of Zambia. Where the sun dipped into the horizon and […] More
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Account of a Street Urchin, Jude Mutuma
[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” ]This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains […] More
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General O: The Sons and Daughters of Okello
General Okello had three known biological children: one son, one daughter, and a third whose name remained a mystery. K.F. Okello, the first son, carried the weight of legacy. He […] More
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Does AI Sleep? by Alinta Kanse
Kisakye never told anyone about the three AIs. Not because it was shameful. Mostly because it sounded lonely when you said it out loud. She was forty-three, rented a two-bedroom […] More
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Nze namutta (I killed him) EPISODE 1
NZE NAMUTTA (I killed him) EPISODE 1👇 Nnatoba nomulambo gwabaze sawa mwenda gwakilo, eyo munda mukibila nga nyambibwako baaba wange batulumaayo😭. I had killed him and wanted to dispose off […] More
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My Brother’s Keeper
The cracked asphalt of Highway 99 bled heat under the twin suns of Solstice. Dust hung like ash in the air, swirling in aimless patterns between collapsed overpasses and rusted […] More
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The Last Unsubscribed
The smell of ozone and despair hung thick in the air as Liz’s neural implant flickered with another notification. She swiped it away, Subscription expired. Renew for 499 credits to […] More
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Nnanna's fate #Stories4Health
I thought I’d enjoy the break from school since i didn’t have a lot of friends at school I would miss anyway. I thought wrong because only a month into […] More
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Kintu and Nambi; The Song of Nambi's Heart #5
By Faith Murket Nambi’s heart was racing. This was it! This was her final chance. Everything she had ever wanted was all too close and all too far at the […] More
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in FictionKintu and Nambi: The meeting #1
By Mugabe Victor Love; love is only a word until one sees her face. And fate, fate is only word; or so I thought My father is a god. The […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #1
By Mugabe Victor It is said that the way of man is never a straight path. It is easier to find suffering than joy, poison than food; enemies than brothers. […] More
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THE STONE SOUP THEORY TO BUILD UGANDAN CITIES
Once upon a time, a wise old man decided to go on a journey. So he packed a small bag, said goodbye to his wife, and set off. He travelled […] More
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How to gracefully fall off a boda boda.
You know how it is on those boda boda commutes…every once in a while, you end up sharing the journey with someone who seems to be going in the same […] More
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What does your personal devil look like?
In my dreams last night, I had a girl in my room and we were fooling around on the bed, high as kites on various substances. The clothes started flying […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #17
By Aine Susan Darkness that creped so deep into the soul that it drew the breath right through your pores; a silence so stiff that it set a string of […] More
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