A Slave in My own Home!

What is a home? When you are not East or West, Nor North or South. Is it to be welcomed by the burdens of the stead, by the miseries of folk? Is it the site of abandoned hopes and bald spirits, awash with solitude? Is it the bounty of lies on lips of lovers lacerated…

REVIEW COMMENT ON HEART OF THE MATTER-GRAHAM GREENE

The Novel “Heart of the matter” is to me an Allegory that requires a reader to be focused and detailed in understanding. Graham Greene shyly opens up a flamboyant tale of a policeman’s dilemma with the truth, facts and self-conceit. Scobie the deputy commissioner pertains the character of the antagonist and protagonist; throughout the novel,…

“TRUMPING A LEGACY OR BEING A SOCIAL DANGER!”

A long love and interest in Nollywood production movies locally referred to as “Ebiniigeria” still leaves me in fierce wits with the common phrase that I notice re-occurs in a number of scenes in Nollywood movies. “Wonders shall never end” so goes the phrase, which is usually uttered or used when something unanticipated, occurs to…

SACHET LIQUOR FOR PROSPERITY

“SACHET LIQUOR FOR PROSPERITY” It’s a new trend all over Uganda’s major towns; young people are taking to it like it’s a national activity, best befitting to be locally code named the ‘Bonna Banywe’ scheme’ meaning ‘let them all drink,’ an ideal life-style of sorts. This time though, unlike the “slow progress” of all becoming…

A WHITE HELMET FOR SYRIA…

A WHITE HELMET FOR SYRIA… It is now 5 years and each passing second continues to claim another kindled life of a toddler, a father, a mother, a brother, a sister, a son, and a daughter. These young and old now ‘miserable humans’ continue to pay the price of a feud for power over the…

PEACE AT DAWN: (BY OGOL OKECH SAMUEL)

PEACE AT DAWN: (BY OGOL OKECH SAMUEL) From a somber tide At the dawn of day, I relish the smile of a whole morning. In fulfilled ecstasy I yonder Filled with the peace of dawn A cold air surges through my pulse, It heaves my thoughts of a lost love! It tramples all my fears,…

GET OUT THERE!

GET OUT THERE! From Ogol to you… It’s the least you can do for yourself, time and again we live upon this wonder of a realm given to us by nature, but we do very little to appreciate the beauty and splendor that is all around us. At the beginning of our lives, we live…