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#MuwadoLoveLetter Your Guardian Angel
“Dear Daisy, I am not the letter-writing type; we both know that. Heck, I am the kind of guy who gets a migraine writing emails. That’s one of the reasons […] More
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Jadwong, Sydney Mugerwa
Jadwong When you’re seven and Jadwong tells you, “Galamira wansi!” you do as you’re told. You drop to the floor like a Mvule tree felled with the axe. Wherever you […] More
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Pastor’s Sin, C.y
[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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ITS NOT TOO LATE
Dear Dad, It’s me, script, your lovely firstborn daughter. A firstborn daughter that was bestowed on to you as a miracle following the nine miscarriages mummy faced that broke her, […] More
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Orange soup
Mark Obibi had never sucked his teeth at his mother, but he did it in January 2011. Everything she was saying annoyed him. She described the scene of plates flying […] More
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#SSWCIII – House of the Rising Sun by Daniel Nuwamanya
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 […] More
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Dear Nshinka #LettersWeNeverSent
At first, I wrote a song, but I couldn’t record it. Then I wrote a poem, I couldn’t recite it with a clear sounding voice. Perhaps a letter will do. […] More
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in FictionWine: a short story
One of my boyfriends introduced me to wine. The memory of its taste has never left me -it was so good! If the demons of alcoholism in my father’s lineage […] More
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Love in the shadows.
LOVE IN THE SHADOWS It always surprised me how someone with billions of daddy issues could be so mesmerized by men. The hardness of their faces sent me places. The […] More
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