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...
