A foundational chapter in Sitawa Namwalie’s memoir in progress focuses on the doll. Set in the late 1960s in independent Kenya, the chapter captures the experience of race in a still-integrating Kenya (for the most part, the process of racial integration failed in independent Kenya): Susan’s doll looked just like her. Blond hair covered her… Continue Reading →
Moonlight
Water is another country. –Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return At first, the sound of water. Residence time.1 Black time. Black untime. The memory of water—the memory water has—the memory water is. We keep returning to the water. We keep being returned to the water. A face plunges into ice. Again. my… Continue Reading →
Gukira 