Arts & Books

Nafasi Art Space since February this year, I have had the chance to reflect a lot about my art practice and about the Tanzanian visual art scene in general.

Protest art exists across all the genres of art. In visual and audio arts, from stand-up comedy to paintings and rap music, protest art is unified by its socially conscious message and bold challenges to injustice and malgovernance.

(For Hope Turyasingura)

My survival depends
on the honesty with which I tell of you,
on the honesty with which I dare to share
about your strength, your passion and love.

I have never reviewed a poetry book before.

[Ed. Floyd Shivambu. (2014). The Coming Revolution: Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom. South Africa: Jacana Media.">

Milton “The Voice” Blake was more than a brother to me. Blake was my comrade and being a comrade is deeper than being a brother. Comradeship is ideological; brotherhood is biological.

I am my body and my skin.

I’m my body.
My body is my space.
In my body
with my body
I sing
I think
I laugh
I cry
I dream
I narrate
I love
and live.

There are three main reasons for this: First, and to be specific the population of Kenyans in Europe is static after stringent Shengen Visa entry requirements of 26 EU countries, and three non- EU countries were harmonised in the mid-2000s.

It is a huge honour and privilege to be invited by Dr. Kolawole Olaniyan to review this timely contribution to the human rights conversation in Africa.

The African Poetry Book Fund and Nebraska’s premiere literary journal, Prairie Schooner, in conjunction with individuals and organizations in the Gambia, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, are launching five poetry reading libraries throughout the African continent scheduled to open this Septemb