Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform | The Gathering | Activity https://muwado.com/members/sswc/activity/ Activity feed for The Gathering. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:57:48 +0300 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 046210599bf0b6d5f7460e55f413a765 The Gathering just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37033/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:16 +0300 0 046210599bf0b6d5f7460e55f413a765 The Gathering just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37031/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:16 +0300 0 a8ce400233235ae14fd1a28001d0f56f The Gathering just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37029/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:15 +0300 0 a8ce400233235ae14fd1a28001d0f56f The Gathering just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37028/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:15 +0300 0 a8ce400233235ae14fd1a28001d0f56f The Gathering just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37027/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:15 +0300 0 a8ce400233235ae14fd1a28001d0f56f The Gathering just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37026/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:15 +0300 0 a8ce400233235ae14fd1a28001d0f56f The Gathering just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37025/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:15 +0300 0 e3b8248022196882dfca21fcbd10d484 The Gathering just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37024/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:14 +0300 0 e3b8248022196882dfca21fcbd10d484 The Gathering just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37023/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:14 +0300 0 e3b8248022196882dfca21fcbd10d484 The Gathering just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37021/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:46:14 +0300 0 c689a79970e232420cb190b438fecb56 The Gathering wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=55050 Sun, 17 May 2026 06:00:08 +0300 Leave Everything on the Dancefloor – A racy story by Alinta Kanse FictionI got fucked in a dancehall, right there on the dancefloor.Right there amongst so many other dancing people, men and women who were equally teeming […]

]]> 67fe146adb158316938a0b0d1f964539 The Gathering wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54909 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:15:29 +0300 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 […]

]]> e5a64a3259cd843f15b1cf082a5519f4 The Gathering's profile was updated https://muwado.com/activity/p/36005/ Sat, 09 May 2026 14:54:39 +0300 0 a817ce848f907a995c4f54ddaf9ee4b4 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9921 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:53:45 +0300 It was barely dawn, a few birds in the near distance were singing when two strong built men lifted the lion skin that was used as the barrier at the entrance to Chwo’s hut and walked in. He was lifted out of his b […]

]]> 7dbb8111c9cfa6007ab4246b201583d7 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9882 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:51:25 +0300 I would be hard-pressed to describe with clarity the scene that lay at my feet in the plantation of Muzeyi Mukabya on the cold, dewy morning of June 23rd.

Having only arrived in the hut-dotted village of […]

]]> a093863eea38d44c3035b5f36114dac9 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9732 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:27:52 +0300 Last weekend, I was attending a discussion in a room with a view of the street and a nearby field. On the tables, almost everyone had pairs of shades and bottles of water to survive the heat and yet outside, the […]

]]> 50bfcebe5a3abab8bcc00dfc57276615 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9711 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:27:22 +0300 There’s a popular, not solely nursery, rhyme about being dared to jump and what one would get in exchange for taking on the dare. One might say that that’s a tool to sow the seeds of bribery at a tender age, but […]

]]> 4846d29c7796927ef53581d4f85fc884 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9679 Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:35:36 +0300 The nights in Lomukura are like sin – hot as lust sometimes and cold as murder when one least expects it. On this night, invisible flames lick at my body as a choir of mosquitoes sings around my head. I wake up a […]

]]> c47dff1550c0a2bfed02f10353ead87e The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9638 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:30:49 +0300 Nandi stretched her legs out in front of her and sunk her naked feet into the sand. She closed her eyes for a moment, took a deep breath and concentrated on the sound of the waves on the lake as they mingled and […]

]]> 943cd194e7311de1d4bf497c91951985 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9550 Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:03:31 +0300 It was a cloudy May afternoon, and all seemed well at the Mbaho residence. Eight-year-old Kenan was watching the latest sci-fi movie on the TV screen in the living room. A horde of alien creatures had captured the […]

]]> 63fe89a6c1c40b895aa751fe7a4e407c The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9517 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:22:59 +0300 “I am a man of action,” Musa says with finality.
When I fell in love with him, I became the spring flower that unfolded itself enticingly, to him pleading to be touched and plucked and pinned either to his hai […]

]]> cce96f84f16e5f3c9b9510ea0ed67892 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9498 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:53:37 +0300 But wait, is that even possible? Can anyone leave ‘the castle’? How does she even know about it? I guess I was not the only one learning more than was being taught by The Maker!

“I know you are not going to li […]

]]> fe1e14865f83d4b5a9cc9fba5d90ac15 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=9495 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:47:14 +0300 Grandpa stood silhouetted against the vast orange horizons of the setting tropical sun; neither calls of the wild, of the sweeping sound of wind whistling through trees, nor the call of the tamed; bleating billy […]

]]> ce0287e735e34c180b3929d741d91636 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7529 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:44:18 +0300 Hell hath no fury.…brain damage effects no limit….

December 3rd 2015
Bena and Isaac went on what must have been their 80th date in six months. She wore another of her beautiful red dresses and sassy heels, and […]

]]> 176d01e3e5b0dec5b9cbcb32feb542af The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7431 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:44:40 +0300 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 this girl that made my heart […]

]]> 3df6ad932471e8dc77392d3c031bbcef The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7427 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:34:48 +0300 “What the f…”

“Yo yo yo! Not in front of the kids, man! What’s wrong with you?”

“Oh. Sorry. Sometimes this shit just spills out.”

“Ugh!”

“I mean, why is the price on the can different from the price on the […]

]]> 94db97d87610e96889c09dc62f13edf0 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7383 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:54:16 +0300 “Ah! This chicken is hard!”, Belle exclaimed as she tried to saw through the chicken thigh one last time with the now-bloody knife. It reminded her of her late father’s carpentry shop and the constant drone of th […]

]]> a50a8c878245dc3ccc6195967853fe1b The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7359 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 08:43:06 +0300 A beautifully familiar peachy golden sky signals the beginning of a brief moment of calmness, before traffic descends upon Helen’s neighborhood. Soon, Toyota Prados, Noahs, Ipsums and BMW’s with tinted windows wil […]

]]> 254b1579532d232764ba3718e5c2e8c8 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7344 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:18:07 +0300 “Vaawo waano” she yelled, getting shocked at the sound of her own voice. He was back. The spirit that had haunted her was back and he wouldn’t stop mocking her. He had won, again. Kemi squinted into the sun tryin […]

]]> 9cde70ef9ea85661de258fdba9738e99 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7327 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:07:31 +0300 “I pray God blesses your marriage through good and hard times, to hold unto and care for each other in all circumstances. May He bless you as you birth a new generation in our family line,” Mrs. Kalyesubula spo […]

]]> 34948ec7f5b0768b076602950507a231 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7321 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:23:19 +0300 Oli kiliya(clear)?” ..came the rough retort from the bloodshot bangi-chewing bear of a man that was my housemate. It was what we chose to greet our lot in this dungeon we called a house- we had occupied one of […]

]]> 64823778cbfa98d7edfd28801b2e88cd The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7309 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 08:36:58 +0300 The door to a black Land Cruiser Cygnus closed on a Monday morning with as much noise as ash descending on the earth. Sid thought he’d heard something but dismissed it as a figment of his imagination. Only, it w […]

]]> 663a22f73bd3b7af72a33e3b00de8e6f The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7290 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:59:02 +0300 Derek brushed his fingers over the piano keys and pressed down with a confidence that would befuddle Mozart. The sweet melody of the piece he played rose into the air and penetrated the crowd like a wild bull in […]

]]> 3415dd86e3bbfa891871cee3ec525454 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7287 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:53:10 +0300 I doodled your name by force. Yes please. I was not going to be that girl who’d pass through her teenage years without ever doodling a boy’s name in a notebook when she’s supposed to be concentrating on something […]

]]> 053b02b5b04cc60547b91b3eb0abe932 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7284 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:43:38 +0300 Like porridge on fire, your anxiety is bubbling over, turning into froth and steam. You don’t have many friends left. Not since that fit you threw at the last baby-shower.

You tried acting stoic about it but it w […]

]]> 74ec006806b143073b2aa9595eda7fa8 The Gathering wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=7278 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:18:05 +0300 #SSWCIII – 'And When Death Is On Your Side' by Denise Kavuma She had long since given up on trying to decipher the difference between reality and the dream. At first she could always tell for even at 5 years of age, she […]

]]> 79e1859d86b075e3863270a352d82fff The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7275 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:04:47 +0300 I used to hear some folks in our city say that nobody was perfect but I bet those folks had never met my dad for he was the best and most perfect person in the whole wide world.

When I was nine and Jimmy Fitz, […]

]]> 592a152c61e5880d4b34b404abc3e145 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7268 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:52:30 +0300 It’s no secret. You, my friend, have a crush on Kemigisha, the uptown girl whose list of admirers stretches beyond the horizon of the furthest mountain, a fact she’s well too aware of. No, not your crush on her […]

]]> 4be16552bf297df5ddd4eb7c5b719c36 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7261 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:32:11 +0300 As he ferried another bag of cement from the warehouse to the waiting truck, Mwine felt like his back would snap at any moment. He saw a reflection of himself in the truck’s rearview mirror. He was u […]

]]> cac57838a993d698c898230bfbd4ff91 The Gathering wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=7251 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:23:07 +0300 #SSWCIII – Torn by Paul Kisakye The hot stream of urine hitting the dark, cavernous bottom of the pit latrine is music to my ears. I take a deep, satisfying breath as my body releases the […]

]]> 8b7d645ba2e9d9492631b5575e918d2a The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7245 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 11:41:18 +0300 It’s quiet here. I think I can hear an echo. Even when I’m whispering. Musty too. Why do all Your ‘houses’ have to be musty? Is it the sweat of the holy saints that lingers in the air days after the Sunday mass is […]

]]> 0d239f1b503040b592ebca374c7e3c55 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7237 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:08:17 +0300 CHAPTER I
MEMENTO MORI

Misery may be manifold, and despair is likely relentless, but there is nothing quite so designed to inspire the supremeness of psychological distress as the fear of death. When spawned […]

]]> e65b2835b4410642a5b26e8c169e54fe The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7231 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:01:05 +0300 Surrounded by a thick security detail, with her shoulders back, her head held high and a slight constant smile playing on her lips as her eyes skimmed through the adoring, cheering crowd that lined her path, their […]

]]> 12c8b6efbcfe0c37c18c3a0712fe9943 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7218 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:18:12 +0300 It is 7.30 in the evening.

The sun has already disappeared behind the horizon. The night is gathering fast. I can tell from the way the small rhombuses of light in the ventilator bricks have turned from light […]

]]> baa5f4177f1490022d3a7edab54e8f96 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7213 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:11:23 +0300 Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, he thought. Shakespeare might be one of joys of Western education, he mused. Technically though, he neither had a crown nor wore one but the weight of his responsibility […]

]]> 427ef27eaad81d2ea05297878240a440 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7208 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:54:05 +0300 Ninjas are silent. Ninjas do not make a sound as they move. Wanyama and I were not ninjas as we stumbled through the overgrown grass behind our dormitory block. Wanyama’s big Umoja slippers slapped against his m […]

]]> 382815010c28c7fb436a304ab980ace0 The Gathering wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=7203 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:35:05 +0300 Adeke gathered her faded purple nightgown tightly around her thin shoulders and moved to sit on the floor, near the lone candle mounted on the hollow tip of an empty coca-cola bottle in the middle of their small […]

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