Musunzu tree Mothers, machetes, a singing contest, a small blue room, the shade of a Musunzu tree. This collection of short stories shows different facets of personhood, shades of happiness, and despair. Anchored by a sense of community, the characters probe the limitations of their existence. Woven underneath these complex, playful, twisting tales is a […]

When rivers say goodbye When rivers say goodbye, is an ironic phrase which exhibits the intimate relationship between the author and her ancestral tribe, land, heritage, spirits, and soil. It is a statement demonstrating the realities of human transition up the ladders of life, when the girlchild/author/poet/writer/chronicler Cynthia Abdallah waves goodbye to her people, her […]

‘The feet are symbolic to the sojourns of the authors. The places they have had to travel from – and to – collecting stories and scents. It is through their feet that we get to partake in the glories and gloom of yonder worlds. The feet are thus the vessels through which the tales travel […]