A Pop Concert by Chance
Sunday nightfall, I’m bored—actually I feel like munching succulent bread and Vita Milk—so Friend and I go to Spar. We are surprised to see
February 10, 2019
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The Coo of a Blue-Plumed Bird
6 Things This Week
Literature I have been touring the 2018 archives of African literary magazines for a Brittle Paper project. I resumed reading Miles Morland’s memoir Cobra
February 1, 2019
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Messi, Mbappe, Pique, Pogba: Fantasy Football 101
One evening ten years ago, when I was still a die-hard football follower, I decided I wanted my own team: it would comprise players I
January 12, 2019
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121 Songs I Really, Really Listened to in 2018
Every year since 2012 has brought to me a different sort of musical satisfaction—I encountered sounds I loved, new artistes I’m watching. But the
December 12, 2018
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The Feet of Drogba
I was 13 when I fell in love with the whole of Didier Drogba. I had freshly become a football follower, a stubborn Chelsea
December 9, 2018
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Memorial Garden
From “Blue Lake, Small Island,” snippets of an un-noted experience. It was 11 a.m. when we gathered in the backyard and left for the
October 25, 2018
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A Language Problem
From “Blue Lake, Small Island,” snippets of an un-noted experience. Four or so minutes after we touched down in Bole International Airport in Addis
October 25, 2018
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My Playlist and Some Thoughts, Vol. 1
Not all of them—can’t possibly write out all of them—but most of what I’m listening to right now, the songs I’ve played the most, alphabetically.
September 16, 2018
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The Self-centric, Subversive Poetry of J. K. Anowe
It is a poignant joy to discover yet another young writer living on the continent with the talent and potential to measure with the established.
September 9, 2018
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Monk. Astronomer. Artist
First written on 11 August, 2016, on Facebook. Monk. Astronomer. Artist. Architect. Priest. Psychologist. Lawyer. Monk. Historian. Writer. Physicist. Painter. Actor. Activist. Academic. These,
August 11, 2018
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