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Waterways

March 17, 2024·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

In high school, if you pursued the arts path you had a choice between Geography and History. Those of us who went with Geography got the benefit of some pretty …

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Sílé / The Debt

February 25, 2024·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

Part I: Mama gathers up her handbag and says- We are going to jumuiya. So I hold onto her skirts and skip along. I am 5 all over again and …

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Dry and Forbidding

December 19, 2023·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

The gate to his castle reads “Garden of Hope”. Here, Simon Lekita rules. His level of knowledge and confidence stretches out across the acres of the lush farm he tends …

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What’s Under the Bed

November 15, 2023·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

There’s a saying in Swahili: Ukitaka cha mvunguni sharti uiname – “If you want what’s under the bed you must bend down”. It stuck in my head because I told …

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