by African Comb Books | Mar 21, 2024 | How to Write, The Arts
By David G Maillu Published March 21, 2024 Halima was an exceptionally beautiful medium size woman with a brand of skin features that argued she was a mixture of black and Arabic blood. She had long wavy black hair. Her beauty was most registered in her eyes, in the...
by African Comb Books | Feb 6, 2024 | How to Write
By David G Maillu Published February 6, 2024 Mahmud housed Abdu and their family for about three months during which he tried to teach Abdul a first aid Kiswahili. By the third month both Abdul and Halima could see that, in spite of the hospitality with which Mahmud...
by African Comb Books | Feb 3, 2024 | How to Write, News, The Arts
By David G Maillu Published February 3, 2024 For Abdu it was the most exhausting, humiliating, and challenging waiting. That was expressed by his visible restlessness. If he had been a smoker, he would have smoked a whole packet of cigarettes for the one and a half...
by African Comb Books | Sep 24, 2023 | How to Write, The Arts
By David Maillu Published September 24, 2023 My heart picked up speed as my excitement intensified. The eastern sky had begun colouring the birth of that fateful morning. It was cold, pretty cold. Birds were retiring from their morning singing. I had been walking fast...
by African Comb Books | Aug 28, 2023 | How to Write, The Arts
By David Maillu Published August 28, 2023 When you want to write a novel, one of the first questions which come to your mind is, “How long is my novel going to be?” RELATED: Poets Society of Kenya Conducts Youth Empowerment Workshops Many unprofessional people begin...
by African Comb Books | Jun 9, 2023 | How to Write
By David Maillu Published June 9, 2023 A novel is a story long enough to fill a book in which the characters and events are usually imaginary. Composition writing is the elementary stage of novel writing. The matter starts in school class where we learn composition...