Poetry

The Writers Space Africa (WSA) Foundation is a remarkable not-for-profit organization registered in Tanzania.  Its visionary founder, Anthony ‘PenBoss’ Onugba, established the organization with the noble aim of empowering and elevating the voices of writers...

Title: 327 Thousand Feet High Author: Anthony Wesonga Oduori Edited by: Tom Odhiambo  Publisher: Contact Zones Publishers Reviewer: Bonface Otieno Poetry is a unique genre of expression most writers have incorporated freely in their means to condemn, appreciate, critique,...

Anthology Title: Song of my Dreams & Other Songs Anthologists: St. Andrews Creative Writers & Book Club Selection and Editing: Bonface Otieno Contacts: standrewscreativewritersclub@gmail.com, +254 746955316 Cost: KES 500 Reviewer: Benvictor Makau Publisher & Year: Abba Publishers, 2022 In today’s world, music, art, drama, and poetry...

Everyone’s life on earth is not a mistake; if there is one thing to claim, everyone is born with a purpose, and so are they all abled differently. Born in 1999 and raised in Kigunga,...

Born and bred as a village boy at the Bukulumi village of Bukulumi Butula constituency, Busia county, Antony Wesonga Oduori first set foot in Nairobi City, Kenya’s capital, courtesy of Lenana School for his...

Sit here, bright-eyed granddaughter of mine.Close enough to feel this breeze over my arm,sit as I recount the history of tomorrow.A story of the days you are yet to use.No day has been barren;...

A busy suburb, a well-laid-out mall, crazy traffic, ascending prices and the intrusion of technology.  All these are easily recognizable as the hallmarks of modern living, the practical re-organization of the plate of humanity to...

Author: Anthony Onugba Genre: Poetry Country: Nigeria Reviewer: Benvictor Makau The sixty-poem Anthology by Anthony Onugba is one of the most stimulating compilations of thoughts in our age. For an unclouded meaning, he catalogues it into three scintillating episodes:...

By Carolyne Afroetry, The Unapologetic Poet There is energy in a name.Your names have a historythat catapults the flamesof your identity.It sets you apart from everyone.Your surname remarks heredity. Your name is your shield.It conjures memories...

By Carolyne Afroetry I wailed like a heart broken cloud.My spirit crashed.I felt like the scraps devouredby vultures.Condom wrappers that artisticallypainted the street cornerscommiserated with my plight.Pity became my mostcherished groom.Hurricane of tears formedaround my...