Richard Oduor Oduku is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Sisi Afrika Magazine. He is also a Founding Member of Jalada Africa Trust – a Pan-African collective.
He has been published widely in spaces within and outside the continent. He has been published by Jalada Africa, Saraba Africa, Panorama – The Journal of Intelligent Travel, This is Africa (TIA), Brittle Paper, and The Elephant, and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, among others.
He was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards (2015), the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2017), Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces (2017) and Brittle Paper Anniversary Award (2018), for the Nonfiction piece “An African in London and Other Reflections on African Literatures’.
Even though COVID-19 infections and fatalities remain comparatively low, African governments have struggled over the past year to expand healthcare capacity and meet vaccination targets. The continent has a fragile health ecosystem and cannot cope with the virulence of the double mutant currently devastating India.
In 1998 DMX released two albums in the same calendar year — both debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 2000, marking the start of a two-decade iconic career beset by struggles with drug addiction, legal troubles, and family troubles.
She doesn’t walk to him to inquire what has happened. It is a taboo for pregnant women to see drowned bodies otherwise the spirits roaming the river would enter her womb and inhabit the unborn.
Kenya’s hip hop scene has been nothing but a graveyard of mixtapes which – while offering a glimpse at the spirit and experimentation – deny listeners the beauty of intention, coherence, and completeness.
The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?
