Archive | Issue-85

Africa

Spring brings new beginnings and reopens the cycle of the seasons. This year has seen a very significant beginning with the inauguration of Obama, the first black president of the United States of America. This months cover artist, Sarah van

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Walking in My Fathers Footsteps

I came to Mombasa, Kenya looking for solitude. Away from the shifts and swings of London, I could bask in a year-long sabbatical of writing and be away from the influence of a London I had spent my entire life

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He-Man and Hopscotch

We played He-Man and Hopscotch

one tomboy

one ballerina

both grass knee stained

and Marmite mouthed

by the end of the day

at Christine’s house

always so well behaved!

exclaimed mothers of others

as their offspring screamed

and smacked each

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Majuto

Did I ever tell you the story of the oil, Majuto?
I don’t think so. I was too young to know about sex. Too young to know about right and wrong. Now, though, I am able to reflect. I can …

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