Under Starry Skies

Something disruptive always happens towards the end of a year. Should you venture to check my previous post, you may be astonished to dis...

Rain splattered across the patio of an old-style bungalow, its windy and slapdash whistling disrupting a dull order in the array of garde...

Esoteric. The word came ringing in my head with every paragraph and page I weaved through in July’s People (1981) by 1991 Nobel Prize fo...

Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991), winner of the Booker Prize, is a veritable treat for lovers of ...

In Way Back Home (2013), Niq Mhlongo writes briskly. His style doesn’t seek to linger, and he doesn’t attempt to infus...