Category: Tributes
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YouTube channel “Kamau Brathwaite Remix Engine” celebrates Caribbean legend.
The Kamau Brathwaite Remix Engine YouTube channel has been celebrating Caribbean legend Kamau Brathwaite since it was set up on May 8, 2020. Kamau Brathwaite, who was born in Barbados and lived all over the world including a stint in Ghana, was widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. Starting…
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The Road Binyavanga Built by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
I first met Binyavanga Wainaina on the road, long before I knew he was called The Binj and that his voice and laughter filled a room no matter how big. Long before I knew that someday, on a day like today, I would be asked to write a piece about his death, a piece to…
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Donald Molosi’s moving Philly Lutaaya play #WritivismFestival2015
Ugandan superstar singer Philly Lutaaya was introduced to many of us in a documentary Alone in which he shares his experience as a man suffering from Aids in 1990. I watched the documentary of the man who had died in 1989 as a teenager in Nairobi and I have to say that it affected me…
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Okey Ndibe salutes Ngugi Wa Thiongo on his birthday
In case you missed it, Monday was Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s birthday or as this toddler I know (OK, it’s really me), it was his “happy birthday.” Kenya’s most famous literary son was born on 5 January 1938 in Kamiriithu, near Limuru, Kiambu County, the fifth child of the third of his father’s four wives. So…