Not guilty anymore

By Karani Kelvin.

Tell Laban Erapu

If you can find him

That we are not guilty of giving anymore

Used to seeing the “heap of rags”

With their begging bowls

We have learned to see them as us

Like NGOs finding it difficult to get aid

We see beyond their made to order agony

There is hardly an innocent soul out here

They fleece us by the coin like politicians

We’ve become the reluctant donor

Desensitized to peddlers of lies

Keni’s Visit to Grandpa

By Ajah Eric

Thanks be to God! Keni sighed. Enough of lengthy lectures, assignments and tormenting exams ….

Keni’s second year at university had just come to an end. Though he was keenly aware that the educational journey was not over, he was more than relieved that he was going for the holidays. A change is as good as a rest, his primary school head teacher used to say. And this break would be for a whole four months!

Literary Criticism in a Chest Thumping Generation

By Karani Kelvin.

There is a problem.And no Binyavanga, no one has fallen asleep in the toilet. Its not the kind of thing you want to try in Mpeketoni. But let us talk about that some other time.