Today’s prompt challenges to write a poem for children. This could be in the style of a nursery rhyme, or take a cue from Edward Lear or Shel Silverstein. It could rhyme — or not. It could be short — or not. I am elated that this poem was featured on Day 23, described as:…
Saturday, 8 March 2014 saw worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day, with a theme to inspire change.Women, men and children took part in different activities to celebrate women. My honour of this day and it’s theme began with reflections about myself as a person. What can I do to inspire change? I made a vow…
First published in When Women Waken, Winter-Spring 2014 – Issue 4 Blood of my ancestors speak, that I am wisdom within. History from Olduvai Gorge, that I am knowledge of evolution. Unbroken caldera Ngorongoro, that I am the wonder within. Our elephant is largest on land, that I have power to leap forward. Great lakes…
First published in When Women Waken, Winter-Spring 2014 – Issue 4 Listen to the poem A Haughty Woman My wide hips dance to melodious tones of my tight thighs I am a soprano of unique creation. My lips sing a song of praise about a mouth whose thick flesh I naturally possess. My chest comforts…
*This poem was inspired after having read the book Quiet, by Susan Cain. Being an introverted person, it is a celebration to see a movement revolutionising the quiet. Happily, I feel weird no more for finding tranquillity in a place such as graveyard. It’s not a silence, no. Happily, I converse with the invisible Fallen…
*My writings have been inspired by encounters with many blessed human beings – parents who spent time with a child drawing, a child who drew what would become part of my book, colleagues who encouraged me through purchases of my books, loving souls with different sexual orientations who taught me not to judge and accept…
*For us Tanzanians the passing away of Nelson Mandela is a reminder of the valiant efforts made by Julius Kambarage Nyerere to support Mandela in freeing South Africa from the apartheid system of racial segregation. Mama Africa’s heart grieves for her two fallen legacies. One gone in October 1999, the other in December 2013. Mwalimu,…
Africa Book Club aims to help keep African story-telling alive, and to share the best of African literature with the rest of the world. Only by giving voice to African writers and the stories they tell can we create a world where our continent’s narrative is not dominated by the stories of bad leadership and…
Today I want to do one thing – be grateful. My three published children’s books would not have been complete without all the children who participated by contributing illustrations and in one particular book with Swahili stories. It was and still is my intention to inspire children to wish to draw or perhaps write a…