“What we do for ourselves dies with us; what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike Dearest reader,   Circa 2007, my mother…

Dearest Reader, I’m dead now. Truth is, I face judgment anytime soon. I have no advocate, yet I intend to make my plea. My greatest moment on earth? Being part of…

Dear male reader,    Own it. This is not about the masterpiece from Stormzy ft. Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy. In recent times, I have found myself thinking about extremes.…

Dear Four,    I am tempted to believe that certain emotions require huge funding. Huge funding, and this is not because you’re required to splash the cash; nope, it just…

“To know the beauty of a man, give him a haircut. Beasts become princes, and monstrous-looking men become lovely little boys,” says Frank Chukwuebuka Clinton, coordinator of the King’s Court…

Dearly beloved male reader,    You are a necessary part of this world. The world as we know it exists because of you; if you were no more the world…

He asked me to touch him. His protruding veins spread out like lightning across a cloudy sky. He took me in his arms, sat me on his laps, laid my…

You dream it. The day you shall wake and here and everything that came with it will be long gone. I watch you scrub your body with hopes that once…

“What if one mentor could change the course of a teenage boy’s life? For Frank C. Clinton, the scars of growing up without the right mentors shaped his resolve to…

Character is fate and character is the accumulation of habits formed over time. Nothing, then, is by chance.  Mtshali’s  “Boy on a Swing” has resonated with me over the years…