Let me tell you the story about a girl of ambition I once knew. She was stubborn and young. Positive, she saw what could become even with an empty glass. She conquered her ego. Something most anyone consistently battles with. And she did it with a backhanded flair that was

It’s the holiday season. You are late (as you always are these days) in sending this piece to publish. So let’s get right into it and run this interview, shall we? INTERVIEWER: How did the year go? BETT: I was ready to whine to you that 2014 was difficult, but

At certain hours of a regular workday, I will need space to think. I will need to step away from my desk to let the words stew as I think of what to write next. I will need to step out – alone – to breathe, to catch a cigarette

I turned 30. It’s been over a fortnight in the space between that sentence, and the remainder of this story. That’s what being 30 does to you – it allows you to pause things, gives you space to reflect and act only when you’ve made a decision to. To some

The hunt ran from May all the way to September: On the 7th of May, Antony ‘Anto NeoSoul’ Mwangi released his debut album to a thirsty intimate crowd that had gathered at the Carnivore Grounds. The album title – Star Born – was befitting to the magnificence that unfolded before

I write my stories from their centre going out. When I open a new blank page, I hit the Enter button two, three times – then absentmindedly another three, four times – then I start to write. This first sentence that meets the page, the idea in this sentence, this