By Ayanda Xaba, South Africa: The silence is awkward and the tension so thick that you could cut through it with a knife. I can sense that something big happened while we were at the reed dance. But then, a lot happened there. Things I don’t think we can share at this very moment. We need time to process it. […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: I decided to write to you today because somehow my heart is breaking. All I can think about is how we met and how it felt like it was right and meant to be. Somehow our friendship survived the break-up. If anything, we became closer with the uncanny ability to think alike, complete each other’s sentences […]
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By Philani Tyson Nombika, South Africa: We all rode in cars before we knew the way back With uncertain belief we grew taller than mountains Soon we became the walkabout we feared on street corners Riding in cars with strangers Got hooked on bars and became regulars We always feared growing to the best versions of ourselves and meeting expectations […]
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My alarm goes off. It’s 6 am. I turn it off ceremoniously because it hasn’t served its purpose. It was supposed to wake me up but the problem is I haven’t slept all night. I couldn’t. I have been relaying this “plan” over and over again in my mind. My heart has been racing. I have been restless, sweaty, on […]
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By Denise Kavuma, Uganda: Picture this if you will A cold wind is howling outside and a chill has settled deep in your bones even as you try to stay awake at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday. You’re on call in a hospital and the emergencies have finally slowed to a halt. Optimism suddenly rises and you hope that you […]
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By Ayanda Xaba, South Africa: I’m woken up by a scream and I am not sure if I?m dreaming or if its really happening. My mind has been playing tricks on me since that accident. “Ahhhhh help! Help me!” Zethu! I quickly get up and limp outside. “Mnqobi!” she cries as I walk out half naked. I’m stunned! The girls’ […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Love comes slowly, she said. I didn’t get it then. But oh the joy of falling in love when you didn’t expect it or imagine it. If this is love then indeed it is a calm peaceful feeling, like floating on a raft in the middle of an ocean. Love doesn’t last and this I know […]
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By Spliph, South Africa: Fashion and new trends are really messing things up, or maybe I’m just getting old. My little brother walked past me the other day and my life changed. After freezing in one spot in awe, I regained myself and watched the creature wander off into the distance. I then did what Moses did and retired to […]
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By Denise Kavuma, Uganda: There I was, minding my own business? well, technically I was minding the health of others but hey, if they decide to walk into my hospital to see a doctor, their health is my business. So there I was minding my own business when a lady I had discharged about a month back walked into the […]
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By Ayanda Xaba, South Africa: “Ah!” I cry out as the sangoma rubs muti inside my fresh wound. It feels like a knife cutting me once again, only this time inserting …. chemicals that are supposed to heal it. I don’t have time to nurse wounds really; there is nothing more irritating than being injured. I’m a bear roaring in […]
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