Fanta

He coughed. She continued staring out of the window. He coughed again. He was beginning ...

The Evil Servant

Every Kenyan home with a little bit of money to spare will have at least ...

The Other Woman

It’s been a good day, well spent.. a huge dent in the wallet ...

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Poetry

Inside the Convent
Reply to Steve Partington's ‘Nuns. Khainga takes leave from his walk down K-Street to peer through the Convent.
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Nuns in Nairobi Museum
Stephen Partington gets cloistered in his second poem on Imagine Culture.
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Spring was coming, spring is coming?
Insect bites/mosquito stings on bare skin, butterflies crawling out of their cocoons, birds chirping. Sun shining, blue skies. Clear nights. The sce
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My Husband and I
My husband is not at home today. He has gone for a very important function.
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Review

Facing Facing Mount Kenya
In 1971, Heinemann Educational Books published an abridged version of Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya. I have yet to research how or whether this b
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Conflict, or, All a Writer Needs
Incredibly, no one went over their five minutes. Going by the event’s title – “Writer’s Stories: Unpacking Kenya’s Crisi
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Witness

The Waiting Room
The waiting room is decorated rather garishly in kindergarten colours: pastel blues and marshmallow pinks punctuated by framed prints of sci-fi rept
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Just a page from my diary
Once again, this writer shares his musings on a recent journey to the Rift Valley.
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Literature festival begins
Kwani Litfest is on, people. We turned the switch Friday night at Acapulco (the one in Nairobi, not the Mexico) with the help of Just A Band, who are
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All Girls Together
A simple conversation between Janet Kirina, and Nice Githinji, on the set of the film, ‘Benta,' has resulted in the transformation
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Private thoughts of a public man
Poet Mike Kwambo pulls the strings on our series on K-Street otherwise, called NairobiI's Red Light District. This poem could as well be meant
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Brown Trash Beautiful
A poem.
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Change
Neema Ngwatilo's second poem in Imagine Culture.
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Teacups
Eleven years old and accustomed to seeing the Jacaranda trees carpet the hill-side with their lavender flowers, loving them even when they wilted a
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