Number 2: Not All Women

For some women, you know, it changes. We start off with me all over your body, needing to breathe you and feel you constantly, ceaselessly, wondrously, until you feel like a smothered treasure, no breath, no air. Then at some point, when you make your displeasure at our stifling known, it changes. Then we retreat […]

Number 1.

I hope that one day the skies part and golden spills out every morning, onto your pillow and wakes you up with the quiet of sunrise. And I hope that every night when the moon’s shadow kisses your careworn cheek, you remember to spare a thought for your favourite woman and kiss her back. But […]

Music: Live and Die in Afrika – Sauti Sol

Finally! The third album from Sauti Sol (and my review) is here. And it is not only beautiful because the album is beautiful and classically done – in one of my favourite themes, the royalty of African people – and not just because you can get the album in limited edition materials like wood – but also […]

Film: Pan

Meh. Meh. Pan didn’t impress me or move me or give me an intriguing look into the history of one of my childhood’s favourite rebels or capture my imagination or portray any aspects of anything differently except possibly for the fact that it is indeed possible to be bored of Hugh Jackman on screen. Hugh […]

Let me tell you the scariest thing.

Let me tell you the scariest thing about giving yourself to someone, entirely and completely, as if no one will come after them and they are the forever. It isn’t even that if it ends you might have nothing left of yourself to try again with someone else. It is that once you let someone […]

Nothing like the first time

I remember the first time I met Jazz. It was in my Aunty Pat’s house. At Aunty Pat’s house, no one was allowed to touch anything, ever. Not even Aunty Pat’s husband. Aunty Pat had the type of fiery predictable temper that would light up at the slightest provocation. And it wasn’t because she was […]