I hope that soon when I encounter media coverage of LGBTQ issues, it will recognise and acknowledge that there isn’t one single narrative to our ‘gayism’,...
“I realised I loved him. I always loved him. And I told him that I didn’t look at him for who he slept with, but I...
After being pushed and suppressed into the confines of our culture, after being labelled demonic, unnatural, attention-seeking, perverted, and sin, queerness is simply asking to be...
Far beyond the commercial viability of the sector, I believe that fashion remains one of the most complex languages of human expression. With every new project...
That time. That place. We started something together. With him at its heart. With his own big and encompassing heart - he dragged us all in,...
Literary scholars have a way of frowning upon other literary media not in their stable. Poets often assume theirs is the best medium. Those who study...
Through writing, he is getting a second chance at life. Self-motivation. Self-education. This resonates loudly with many of us who have been let down by the...
What a brief wondrous life! What a moving force! What an acceleration! He moved so frantically through life, ideas and spaces that it is difficult to...
We cannot think of our continent as a hostile place. Too many of us have learnt to fear it. And I feel that if you trust...
The Kenya I grew up in felt isolated from the rest of the continent and the world. Kenyan writers were dissidents who lived abroad. Art was...
I don’t yet know how to make peace with the fact that I had a hand in legitimising probably the worst administration this country has had...
Western governments tell their people the same lies that are told to Africans by their own administrations. We are just as blinded and our perception is...