By Brian Nzomo PRIDE AND PREJUDICE- JANE AUSTEN (1813) Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson was right about the lives of these Englanders of the Recency period. Sterile in imagination, lives pallid with bromidic traditions, the annoying need to mince expressions and repackaging them in an amiable way. I watched a few episodes of Bridgerton. And inContinue reading “ARISTOCRATIC FEARS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN.”
Category Archives: LITERATURE
SERVING THE GODS
By Brian Nzomo When I took my first breathe, my friends and I were huddled together and bound with an uncomfortable rubber band. I cried out in pain, but my voice was inaudible. The asphyxiation, the stuffiness, motion sickness…”I wonder where they are taking us?” I could not see anything except darkness. I would notContinue reading “SERVING THE GODS”
DARK, SILENT, AND PEACEFUL
By Brian Nzomo The world around me is a quilt of dense darkness. It has been that way for a week now, and am still maimed by disbelief. ‘It cannot be,’ it rings in my mind. ‘This is a nightmare. Wake me up, for this is a bloody nightmare.’ A cold palm is firmly placedContinue reading “DARK, SILENT, AND PEACEFUL”
STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN.
MWANAIDI’S STORY By Brian Nzomo Brian, I have muzzled this darkness for long and I don’t know how long I can let it enshroud me in secrecy. I am a thirty year old single mother. I have a son, Jeremy, who is a month shy of marking his ninth birthday. I also have a boyfriendContinue reading “STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN.”
STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN.
KIPTOO’S STORY. By Brian Nzomo. In the year 2012, I was posted as a teacher-in-practice at Londiani secondary school, together with my colleague Derrick Njenga. It was the moment we had waited for earnestly, as this was the final stride before graduation. I was particularly exhilarated because many of my relatives had confided in meContinue reading “STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN.”
JUST A RANT: NOTHING SPECTACULAR ABOUT A SINGLE SOLAR REVOLUTION.
By Brian Nzomo “Happy New Year!” Another resounding phrase that irks me to the core. It just makes me sick! So repugnant is this dreary statement! Yes. Another year dawns in, while another dusks behind us. What is so remarkable about that? If anything, the commencement of another year should be a grim reminder ofContinue reading “JUST A RANT: NOTHING SPECTACULAR ABOUT A SINGLE SOLAR REVOLUTION.”
A LIST OF ALL MY READS IN 2021.
By Brian Nzomo 2020 was a lethargic year for me. My social and economic life was precarious to say the least. With COVID-19 squelch gripping harder, I could find no time or pleasure in reading anything. Not even an article. But towards the end of that wan year, my situation became better and I pledgedContinue reading “A LIST OF ALL MY READS IN 2021.”
‘MEDEA’ BY EURIPIDES
Tragedy European drama. Perhaps one of the most famous Greek tragedies, Medea is the first Greek play I have read. A woman is betrayed. Medea. All she had sacrificed for in life is on the verge of being scrapped. And what remains of her, as she wallows in abandonment ; is a passionate rage andContinue reading “‘MEDEA’ BY EURIPIDES”
UPWEKE WA TAABU.
Na Brian Nzomo. Machozi yakapukutika bila amri au tamanio langu. Sikutaka kuyafuta. Yatiririke tu! Kuna mengi yamtafishayo binadamu. Huzuni, penzi lililotawanyika, usaliti, ugomvi, uchungu na kutowajibika ipasavyo. Ila, ipo hali imwekayo kabisa katika lindi la taabu kama njaa?Njaa, si ya chochote kingine bali ile ya tumbo ihitajiayo chakula.Nilipokuwa katika mwaka wangu wa pili katika chuoContinue reading “UPWEKE WA TAABU.”
STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN MIND.
By Brian Nzomo. Story one. NICHOLAS STORY. I have long pondered about my dissipating desire for women, fearing that I may soon identify myself as asexual. One may be tempted to ask “how”. I mean, how does a heterosexual man’s desire fizzle out in the presence of a charming beau? Is it even possible? HowContinue reading “STORIES OF THE DILAPIDATED HUMAN MIND.”
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