the writing nib

  • Rethinking John Green

    I spend my days in sketchy corners of Twitter and YouTube where I get triggered to write about topics that probably no one cares about. But it’s fun so here we are. “To weird”, he said. “To weird,” we clinked cans and sipped Turtles All the Way Down, John Green I read a tweet about…

  • This time for Africa, again.

    Black Is King was controversial from the moment its trailer was released and now even after the film was released on Disney+, there has been a lot of criticism regarding its depiction of Africa and the way Beyonce chooses to celebrate or uplift Africa and African heritage through her art. In this very long essay,…

  • Wakandafication

    As usual, something happens on the internet and someone tweets about it and I say to myself, ‘that would make a great blog post topic’. I believe this is related to something Beyonce did or will be doing soon with Disney, but I’m not really a fan or a follower and I do not know…

  • AfRiCa iSn’T wHaT yOu tHInK iT Is

    At 4:30 am (May 17) I was on Twitter, as usual, trying to delay sleep at all cost (yes, I have issues). I then have a random thought about Nas Daily, so I decide to check if he’s still doing his travel the world project. If you don’t know who Nas Daily is; his real…

  • Looking for Home

    Looking for Home

    “So the days, the last days, blow about in memory, hazy, autumnal, all alike as leaves.” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote) I finally watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s! (It is important to point out that I did not enjoy the depiction of Mr. Yunioshi. That was weirdly racist and quite painful to watch. But it’s good…

  • Chasing Happiness

    Just something on happiness and sadness.

  • Time to cancel the white savior complex

    In this article I talk about the white savior complex as seen in white savior films, the latest being ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ and try to show how these films reflect on reality and what needs to be done to “cancel” the white savior complex.

  • “You’re not the river, you’re the city” – John Green

    “You’re not the river, you’re the city” – John Green

    For this post I write some of my thoughts about being in a new city, why I’m here and I try to show how the purpose of my being here and the environment empowers me to think of myself as a great city and not just the river that runs through it. The title is…

  • Hi again.

    Hi again.

    It’s been a while! All those memes about university life destroying your mental and physical well-being are true! I’ve been writing all kinds of things in the last two months: academic papers, social media posts and angry texts trying to educate people on why the n-word still has power today because of the continued oppression…

  • Here’s the Breakfast Menu at Tiffany’s

    I have admired big cities for a long time, mainly because I come from a big city myself, sort of. I actually grew up in a large suburban town in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in East Africa, but during the few weekend nights I found myself in the city I would carefully stare…