MGANGA KUTOKA TANZANIA; I NEED MY MONEY BACK
The poster was strategically glued high on an electricity pole with huge fonts that read “Mganga kutoka Tanzania”. On the list, the advert owner claimed to be a specialist in “CASINO REVENGE,...
Mama, I didn’t make it.
There is a grey three-part braided rope hanging from the timber supporting the iron sheets of the ramshackle or house if you want. It is already knotted and ready to claim its...
Can we meet?
When I raised up my eyes from the pile of clothes I was selling, I met with Rehema's steady gaze. She had obviously taken her sweet time to study the creature she...
Why did you leave me?
I picked up some soil from the spade that had been extended to me and threw it into the six-foot grave and said in a muffled whisper, "goodbye". Then, a certain bitter...
Mum, he touched me!
Sadness. Deep-seated sadness; often haunting. It is the kind of sadness that benumbs your senses to the extent that the body repulses food, gets weak and tired all the time. In this...
DEATH HAS FORGOTTEN ME
"James, I am HIV positive". That's how I received the WhatsApp text message. For those who don't know, it was around 4:00pm, on Sunday, 5th July 2020.
I still...
She took my beloved daughter, my love and my money
My wife passed wind or gas if you like, in the most terrible way. It was a long troublesome boring sound. She had tried to suppress it but somehow, it found its...
