She disappeared on a dreary Sunday morning in Spring. The kind of dull, grey morning that made me miss the thrill of my old job a little....

“Babe, you ever noticed the grass round here?” I asked my date. “The grass?” He said, tilting his head towards me. "Yeah, by the river.”...

The night the Adze took my sister, my childhood ended. Not because I wasn’t shielded from the terrors of it. Quite the opposite. And it...

Some drink wine on bad days. I choose music. Shimmy my shoulders, wiggle my waist and feel problems fade away, for 3 minutes and 40...

I’d expected his visit to my lab to be unpleasant, but it was the only way to stop him. “Mrs Saidu, how are you?” He pushed open my...

Famines are exhausting. Not because of the hunger, that’s something you get used to. Famines are exhausting because of the social...

It was a warm summer's night when my dream caught flame. Lion stood proudly at the edge of the watering hole, basking in the glow of the...

I hate the conversation around cultural appropriation. It’s usually simplistic, polarised and needlessly controversial in a way that...

I was minding my business when I met him. A stranger outside my den door, on my field, breathing my air. But I’m a polite fellow so I...

There was absolutely no reason for this to take as long as it did to publish. Sure I've had a car accident, twin babies and several life...

This has been sitting in my drafts for almost a year. I remembered I still needed to publish this when I got caught up in a conversation...

As discussed is part one, truth-games require power and the desire to play with truth. So how does social media impact on their existence...

When I was 2, my grandfather gave me a £50 note and I ripped it in half. I was recently reminded of this incident (or rather, the years...

The nature of knowledge, truth and power constantly shift in our online world. Twitter is rife with trolls, Facebook with fake news and...

Lockdown found me addicted to social media. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Whilst I’m usually self controlled with my phone use (for...

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” ―Chinua Achebe "Who controls the...

I became a disciple of Jesus 9 years ago. Before that I was anti religion and anti establishment. In many ways, I still am. When I studied t

So I'm playing around with scripting and building a chat bot for Afrocenchix. I realised so much of bot building is story telling. So I...