I love what Kevin Mwachiro is doing with the Nipe Story podcast, giving a voice, literally, to African stories. Nipe Story presents short stories in audio format, making them accessible to new audiences. This morning, I got a message from Kevin saying a short story I sent to him a few weeks ago, has been recorded and is now up on Nipe Story. Yay! Read More »AUDIO: ‘A wife by her name’ featured on Nipe Story podcast
Last year, I came across a moving video posted by Togolese activist, Farida Nabourema. It was of a Togolese woman crying during a TV interview. She was talking about how bad things were in her country and saying that in the 22 years since the assassination of young activist Tavio Amorin, nothing has changed.Read More »Leila Aboulela, Petina Gappah & the immense power of witness
In the pages of ‘These Bones Will Rise Again,’ (Indigo Press, 2018) Zimbabwean-South African writer, Panashe Chigumadzi, gives faces, emotion, colour and texture to a history often filled with the grandiose acts of men who, in leading Zimbabwe’s war of liberation, believed they owned it and the country they won back by it. Read More »A brave questioning of Zimbabwean history by Panashe Chigumadzi
Here are the top 16 books I read in 2018, in no specific order. I highly recommend these as they gave me much pleasure or gave me pause to think and ask questions or taught me new things.Read More »16 book recommendations for your 2019 reading list
A few months ago, in May, I decided I’d try something new; a little experiment. I’d take one of my stories and publish it on Facebook in a serialized format; publish bits of it over several days and see if I could get a following for it.Read More »I published a short story on Facebook. Here are the mistakes I made…
Until this January I had never written a play before. While listening to the BBC some time towards the end of last year, I heard a call for submissions for the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition.Read More »The 2018 BBC Radio Playwriting Competition shortlist is out and…