by African Comb Books | Dec 18, 2024 | News, The Arts
By David Maillu Published December 19, 2024 I have just finished writing a controversial novel titled “Heritage” in which I tried to bring into light and discussion one weird story that has fascinated me for years. It is about the British Queen Charlotte born in 1744...
by African Comb Books | Dec 12, 2024 | News
Writer David G Maillu shall deliver several lectures to members of the public as he leads a public awareness and fundraising campaign for the Nairobi (Kenya)-based Centre for African Aesthetics that he heads. RELATED: How Far Can Kenya’s Cultural Development Go...
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 | Mar 7, 2024 | News
By David Maillu Published March 7, 2024 Dear African Union, I write this letter to you in my capacity as a renowned African author, President of African Spirituality and citizen of Kenya. RELATED: Arm African Union to Take Charge of African Security The world has got...
by African Comb Books | Feb 21, 2024 | News, The Arts
By David G Maillu Published February 21, 2024 Without learning how to read and write from books, you would not be reading this article. Christianity, Islam and other religions would be nonexistent without the sacred books. Illiteracy has no value in the present world....
by African Comb Books | Feb 14, 2024 | News
By David Maillu Published February 14, 2024 Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (JKF) has published more than 20 titles from me. Sixteen out of these are children’s books. The Foundation has published my Broken Drum, arguably the longest novel published in Africa, 1120...
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 | Oct 30, 2023 | News, The Arts
By David G Maillu Published October 30, 2023 There is a saying that the chameleon can change its colors but it can’t change its behavior. This proverb is so true regarding the British Royal Family, going by a newly-released expose.The man who has, finally, brought the...
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 | Sep 18, 2023 | News
By David Maillu Published September 18, 2023 What does the invitation of African Union to become a member of the Whiteman’s G20 mean? Has Africa the bottom with which to occupy that seat? Is it a Whiteman’s trap? What credentials does the African Union have for that...
by African Comb Books | Sep 16, 2023 | News, The Arts
By David Maillu Published September 16, 2023 More than a month ago when I delivered a public lecture on Witchcraft at Mathemboni, my countryside home, I met a self-made herbalist young man who had studied Botany and specialized in Ethnobotany. He was attracted to have...
by African Comb Books | Sep 12, 2023 | News, The Arts
By David Maillu Published September 12, 2023 In the Akamba traditional marriage, for the survival of the family, the survival of the family depended on the boy child. It was a matter of worry if the family had got no boy children. Having only one boy was perceived as...
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 18, 2023 | News
By David Maillu Published June 18, 2023 When you have an idea you want to share with people creatively, you find ways of sharing that idea. Any idea is a living body or form which can be exploited. The body of that idea can have many sides, some which can be...
by African Comb Books | Jun 11, 2023 | News
Why do you think people will read your novel? Successful creative writing is based on how much you know about the subject you want to write about. If you are a young person, any attempt for you to write an advisory or educative book about elderly people will lead you...
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...
by African Comb Books | Jun 8, 2023 | The Arts
By Kulture Queen Published June 8, 2023 In the bustling tapestry of modern life, we find ourselves entangled in a web of relentless pressures. We are the inheritors of an era burdened with the weight of unrealistic standards imposed upon us by various authority...
by African Comb Books | May 29, 2023 | News
By David Maillu Published May 29, 2023 Some years back when Nelson Mandela was alive, I was complaining about the pace of the Blackman’s development when one Canadian Mr Miller stopped me and said, “The Blackman had been verified.” When I asked how, he narrated, “Tell...
by African Comb Books | May 18, 2023 | News
By David Maillu Published May 18, 2023 About five years ago I had the most memorable nightmare. I was sleeping when I dreamt of seeing a desert storm coming out of nowhere to swallow Nairobi. Desert storm is that dense dust storm which comes to cover everything. I...
by African Comb Books | May 14, 2023 | News
By Kulture Queen Published May 14, 2023 Something Torn and New: African Renaissance by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a four-chapter book addresses the process the European colonizer used to ensure that colonization was a success and that neo-colonization in conjunction with...
by African Comb Books | Mar 29, 2023 | News
One day a misfortune struck Mooka and Laka shortly before nine o’clock in the evening while Mooka was giving Laka another lift. Mooka was diverting into the junction to lead to Musingi’s road when a mad motorcyclist missed reading the indicator that Mooka’s car was...
by African Comb Books | Mar 19, 2023 | News
The marriage nightmare had plagued Musingi for nearly half a year. There was no question that his wife loved him. But, it looked, her love to him was not enough without a luxury ingredient from outside. Although he had no proof that his wife had an affair with her...
by African Comb Books | Mar 5, 2023 | News
By Babu Malenga Published March 5, 2023 The last of two creative workshop series aimed at empowering the youth in the arts sector came to an end in Kikuyu on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on February 24, 2023. The workshops dubbed Kreative Klinik...
by African Comb Books | Feb 24, 2023 | News
By Njoroman Published February 24, 2023 The second edition of the Kreative klinic youth empowerment workshop was nothing short of impactful. It was held on the 18th of February at 902 Street, Kikuyu. The workshop was highly interactive with participants and the...
by African Comb Books | Feb 19, 2023 | News
By Njoroman Published February 19, 2023 On the 10th of February, a Friday the Poets Society of Kenya (PSK) began its series of workshops under their Youth Empowerment Programme. The workshop called the Kreative Klinik is aimed and enhancing the performance and writing...
