Download pdf, epub, mobi   Tom Jalio is a Kenyan poet, editor, runner, and winner of the BN Poetry Award 2014. You can follow him on Twitter for updates on his life @tjalio Recently, we got a chance to have a chat with him, about winning the BNPA, his writing, and his life as a … Read more

By Acen Miriam Carolyne                                                          Download pdf, epub, mobi Watch on YouTube  My names are Acen Miriam Carolyne. Most people call me “floetry” because of my poetry. I earned the nickname quite easily and adapted to it with ease on social media. To earn a living, I work in the operations department of a freight company … Read more

By Liz Leppy                                                                  Download pdf, epub, mobi   Her wild radiant smile still sits there where nobody expects.Spectacular-She trucks through the empty, abandoned routeHer hope carried in a broken vaseThere comes a tear, struck from my hungry eyesI tried plucking strength from my weeded heartI triedBut she is different-I’m speechless, she wears … Read more

By Ali Znaidi                                                                     Download pdf, epub, mobi I wish I was a lobster to feel no pain. But when I remembered the delicious pain of North African lemons that pierce the tongue, I declared this wish null. ≈≈ Download pdf, epub, mobi ≈≈  Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia, where he teaches English. He … Read more

By Yazeed Dezele                                                                       Download pdf, epub, mobi The day I started to know angels who laugh flashing all the thirty-two … Read more

By Mulumba Ivan Matthias                                                        Download pdf, epub, mobi   No street light burned. No bulbs on the buildings. Car headlights lit the narrow streets. The buildings, mostly wooden and rusty iron sheet structures, were maize mills and welding workshops fronting filthy trenches. Tenywa observed them, silently taking in every detail. “What a neighbourhood!” he said … Read more

By Hannah Onoguwe                                                        Download pdf, epub, mobi If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own. -Socrates Two things happened at once. Ireti came back, bearing packages in her arms and followed closely by the perspiring houseboy and … Read more

Get this issue of Lawino in your inbox Playing Games in the Delta by Lauri Kubuitsile  It was cold in the morning in the Okavango Delta even in December. There’d been heavy rains during the night and Dambuza put on his jacket and walked to the river’s edge. It had risen in the night. The … Read more