Hekaya Issue 01: Jihadi Brides and other stories.
Hekaya Issue 01 Jihadi brides & other stories
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The Digo widow
Mrs. Mwanaidi Juma is seated in front of her rectangular makeshift hut. A few meters from her is a warm open hearth beside...
Jihadi Brides
Outside, the men are about to perform ablution required before acts of worship, washing their faces and limbs. I listen...
Three counts of Rose
Rose stared at the clock wishing it could move quickly so that she could live her life. The time had finally come to appear...
Not like that
It was a warm Saturday morning; an ideal time to divorce oneself from demanding tasks. James was listening to the subtle...
The client
I met him at club Fly So Fly where I had ceased being a butterfly having suffered a broken neck after falling head first...
Sante [an excerpt]
February 3, 2013
(Prodigy)
“Useless!” he yells, violently tumbling books off his desk and down to the floor. “Why can’t...
Faded
Ever since the end of the rainy season, ever since the destruction of the village green house and the chief’s little baraza,...
Maria
Entry 1, 14th September 2001
My name is Maria and today I became a woman. I became a woman of the society, a woman from...
Kazungu’s dilemna
Kazungu had only read about convictions and death penalties in books and newspapers, and it perpetually made his flesh...