PAWA’S BOOK OF THE WEEK (Week 4, Third Edition)
In her gripping and highly engaging novel, THE SHRINK, Brigitta Zwani from Botswana examines health issues affecting adolescents. These include drug abuse, rape, suicidal cases, depression, broken families, among other disorders. After having lived abroad for a few years, the book’s protagonist, Tebogo moves back home to Botswana. The wounds she carries are still fresh, […]
CHINUA ACHEBE: ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN FRONT
In Memory Of Chinua Achebe Who Died 10 Years Ago On 21 March 2013, Wale Okediran, Former National President Of The Association Of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Recalls His Article Written On July 2013 In Honor Of The Iconic Writer. By Wale Okediran Sat, 13 Jul 2013 Out in the car park, Emeka was waiting for […]
The sun will always shine by Abigail George
The Coloured identity in South Africa has been massacred and annihilated from beginning to end. Gangsterism and the modus operandi of gang warfare has taken over the sub-economic areas of the Northern Areas in Gqeberha. The old refrain and sing song of “we must blame it on apartheid” that has cursed us must come to […]
I never knew her, by walking Doctor Tonnan
A Book Review of Ampat Koshy’s ‘A “Sonneto” For The Poetic World’ and You heard the scream, didn’t you by Santosh Bakaya written by Dominic Francis I really enjoyed this trip through history examining the sonnet form. I was reminded that the sonnet (‘sonneto’ in Italian, which means ‘little sound’ in English) was originally a […]
On The Bridge Over Patani River – Dollin Holt
On the bridgeover Patani River at dusk, I observed, with uninterrupted awe, the nightly celestial bodies receding into a greyish December sky. Oh, how beautiful! The moon and stars, though receding, beamed a soft light that illuminated the bridge, making our passage into pitch dark and sleepy Patani, assuringly divine and blissful. And I reminded […]
Dollin Holt
Do not succumb to despair when people treat you badly. Remember this always: For every cruel person, there is a kind person. For every bad person, there is a good person. For anyone who does not care about you, there is someone who cares about you. The world is not as bad as it may […]
I DO CARE! – Adewale Sobowale
Dirty? Nah! Schmuck? Nah! Why are they fleeing? Dunno! Look within yourself! Oh, eureka! My writing, It stings! I do, Care less!!! 161217
Where Was I? – Adewale Sobowale
Bad, you say Country is! Useless, you say Leaders are! Of course! Some questions, I have: Where was I? Where were you? Where were we? When they were stealing? When they were mobilizing? So–called thugs, Street urchins, Touts, Ruffians N’ vagabonds? Who, in turn, rigged Benefactors into power Where surplus is limitless Controlling My own […]
