Tonny Ogwa

Nov 12, 2024 | sinemafocus.com | Tonny Ogwa

When Jean-Baptiste Poquelin changed his name to Molière and abandoned his privileged, high-born status for a wretched life on the stage, I reckon he never imagined he would die on the same stage, acting in a play of his creation, ironically named Le Malade Imaginaire.

Oct 18, 2024 | theelephant.info | Frank Njugi |Tonny Ogwa

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. “What then were we to do as writers?” Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe asks in his memoir There Was a Country, a personal recount of the Biafran war.

Oct 12, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Tonny Ogwa

This was the Nairobi edition of Liboi’s brainchild Whispers of Power an immersive show by Liboi, a fast-rising African folk singer, songwriter and instrumentalist.

Jul 21, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Tonny Ogwa

But it is too late. I hit deep into the bowels of the lake. It is no longer the beautiful water it was on the shore. It’s dark and ghoulish and, heck, unbreathable! I don’t float like I expected to. I don’t bob like my cousins did. I sink deeper and deeper and deeper as the water stings my eyes and fills my insides. My arms flail and my feet kick, trying to get me back up, but it’s a futile fight of the ant beneath an elephant’s feet. I sink even faster. I can’t breathe. I can’t see.

Jun 24, 2024 | theelephant.info | Tonny Ogwa

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. A few days before “Super Tuesday”, the 18th of June 2024, an undated video surfaced online showing a member of parliament at a church Harambee, donating 20 million shillings as casually as if he was buying mahindi choma by the roadside. He stands on a small podium with the demeanour of a colossus, an expensive-looking watch dangling luxuriously on his wrist.