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Snorkel in Mombasa with Captain Wagna
Captain Wagna, the snorkeling king of MombasaSome people trot around the world just to see animals, or to ogle at old buildings, or to take photos of a ‘wow factor’ that has been photographed a billion...
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When to Kiss is to Sin: Dating in Nepal Pt 3
Normally, I don't kiss and tell, but this happened so long ago that it doesn't matter much. Sometime early in 2010, shortly after I arrived in Nepal, a time when I was still single and had not yet met...
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This Has Been a Good Year
At the beginning of the year, nothing was going right in my life, both career and personal. I was really broke, for one thing. As the year ends, still not many things are going right for me. One of my...
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The Liebster Blog Awards
Sometime towards the end of last year, Matt Ewens nominated my blog for the Liebster Blog Awards. Yay! It humbled me, for this guy, Matt, who I hardly know, but who I met in a google plus writing...
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The Delights of Berlin
Early this month, I went to Europe, for the first time in my life. It's an overrated place. I never understand why people kill themselves to go there. All the time I was there, questions from a folk...
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A Statement On the Sex-Tape Hoax
This is a public apology to Mathew Nabwiso and Tibba Murungi Kabugu, whose reputation is suffering because of a misconception over a video I uploaded on YouTube, a few months ago. The video is being...
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What I Disliked about Berlin
There is an African proverb that says a child who does not travel thinks his mother is the best cook. Well, a child who travels, and still thinks his mother is the best cook, has a point. I was in...
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The Total Agony of Being in Love
A few days back, my facebook status read: Dear God, please help me. I want to be funny, but the only jokes I can come up with have either sex or poop in them. I don't know why I'm fascinated with the...
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Call for Actresses and Actors
Dilstories is in the pre-production for a TV comedy series, tentatively titled The Love Makanika. We are seeking actors and actresses for the lead roles in this offbeat comedy. We will not hold an...
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How to Enjoy A Holiday in Nigeria
Everything they told me about Nigeria turned out to be true. They are loud people. They talk as though they are quarreling, much like Indians and Nepalis. I have a theory that a combination of high...
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Potraits from Kampala's Literary Scenes
She runs the Ranchers Seafood and Steakhouse, where many literary events take place. This photo was taken during the Commonwealth WritersMelissa Kiguwa, a feminist and poet, with Helen Nyana, a writer...
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Seven Reasons Why Women Fear Commitment
Women are more afraid of commitment than men. They’ll end perfectly good relationships for no reason at all. Even when they seem perfectly happy in a relationship, so happy that the man is encouraged...
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Why I Started a Literary Magazine
Many say it’s madness to start a literary magazine. Such a venture, especially one that focuses on African literature, can’t make money because, they say, there is no market to sustain literature on...
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The Darkness Behind My Book
During the launch of my first collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun, one very irritating question kept coming up. What inspired you? It's the brother of that question every writer hates....
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Hats and Feathers: The Fashionable Men of Karamoja
Every time I visit Karamoja, it feels like I've stepped into another world. I particularly like the colorful attire, which reminds me of Nepal, in many ways, (strange that they both love colorful...
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The History of Humankind in Johannesburg
The perk of being a hardworking writer, especially if you put out a good piece of work like A Killing in the Sun, is that you get to go on these fully sponsored trips. Last month, I traveled to South...
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Can Science Fiction Inspire Technological Independence in Africa?
In September of 2014, during Storymoja Festival in Nairobi, I launched my first collection of speculative short stories, A Killing in the Sun, which features sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres. A few...
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Crime and Writers in South Africa
For the first time in my life, I met a female cab driver. Women had driven me before, in their personal cars, and in an organization that I worked for once who insisted on hiring women for drivers, but...
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Is Science Fiction Really Alien to Africa?
African writers are traumatized. They forever have to defend their work. If it’s not someone questioning why they are not tackling the problems of their societies, it’s someone wondering why they only...
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Searching for the taste of South Africa
The first time I went to South Africa, in 2008, the one thing I wanted to taste very much was umqombothi. Chaka Chaka’s hit song in the 80s has never gotten out of my head, just as it has stuck in the...
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