Essays

Miracle

Miracle was bent over a bucket overflowing with lather when she looked up and saw that the blue of the sky had been replaced with a moving, translucent white. Then, just as immediately as she had seen it, it disappeared,…

A Two-Wheeled Nation

The chaotic informality boda-bodas both solve and engender has come to represent the Museveni years in Uganda.

Familiaris

Tenderness is in short supply in our digital age. Where do we go looking for it?

Tragicongo

Should Congo, riven by war and failing politically, try being Zaïre once again?

One Poem

The Gossip of Sparrows after Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s ‘After a Time in America’ (2024) The Nashville farmer’s market whispers to your mind  that this is not  home. It rips the bandage  wrapped around remembrance.   Reveals red flesh. Causes things left behind…

Two Poems

Spoon    (2024) Cancer cells swelled in her stomach, soldiers treading their way to her chest, a steady march to her limbs   until the chemotherapy withdrew from the eight-month battle and her breath slowed to the sound of quiet air…