Welcome 2025 with a look back at the past
In my last London Calling column (Vol 20, Issue 3, 2023) I had expressed a somewhat gloomy prediction for 2024…
DARK TIMES
London Calling This is normally the time of the year when one looks back to what it has…
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editors On receipt of AwaaZ Issue 3, 2022, I straightaway launched into reading about Willy Mutunga. Gosh, what…
Broken Britain!
This is a cry often heard and written or spoken about on our home ground. No doubt its…
Football Mania
Britain is a football mad country, and so there was widespread jubilation when England beat Iran 6-2 and…
1972 + Fifty
That makes 2022, and here we are looking back, from diverse angles, on what happened fifty years ago,…
Zanzibar Stories
We take vicarious pleasure and pride in the achievements of those we love: family and friends, naturally. Beyond…
J M Nazareth remembered
London Calling Special I have been re-reading J M Nazareth`s `Brown Man Black Country: A Peep into Kenya`s…
London Calling – Karim Hirji and Me
I was drawn to Karim Hirji when I read Godwin Siundu’s review of his Growing Up With Tanzania:…
Pandemic Fallout
London Calling So a whole year of Covid–19 has passed and we are still mired in the thick…