My baby brother celebrated his birthday last Saturday. On May 18. Apart from DJ Adrian and the (late) Pope John Paul II, he shares the date with five other of my pals. Even the lead character, Sandy Patterson, from the movie ‘Identity Thief’ celebrates his birthday on the same date.

Books reviews are the holy grail of reviews. The thing about writing books and plays is that the literature is purely reliant on the strength of the characters that are created and refined by their creator – writers and directors. Characters are created to depict themes. So the character has

The Facebook announcement was 3 likes and 1 share in when it appeared on my Home page. I followed the link to the Kwani webpage: Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Binyavanga Wainana. Binyavanga is the founder and editor of the Kwani? Trust. Nuruddin, mh? I had never heard of him

Right off the bat, I had never been a fan of Just A Band. Their hit single, Ha-he, received the airplay that it greatly deserved. And it had a video and a memorable character to boot; Makmende jokes that followed afterward gave me a mild momentary humor that fizzled as

Aah, our favorite writers. Why can’t we leave them where they belong? On our dusty and crammed bookshelves, bookmarked as favorite on our browsers, in the magazines and newspapers they often grace? Why can’t we leave them there? Why do we go ahead and hunt them down in the long

My first piece of writing to ever be published was this one, as a Guest Post on Bikozulu’s blog. When this piece made its debut, I thought it stale – it had been over 60 days since I had written it and it had sat around in my C-drive simmering,