STORYMOJA

NIXON MATEULAH

Nixon Mateulah

Nixon was born in Lilongwe, Malawi. He published two successful short stories soon after writing my ‘O’ Levels in 1995. In the same year I enrolled for ‘A’ Levels through the University of London but did not sit for the examinations due to financial problems. Then in 1996 he emigrated to South Africa. While doing odds jobs in Indian shops in 1997 in Pretoria, he enrolled for Journalism and Creative Writing course and obtained Diploma in 2000. Since then he has published short stories, poems in various books, newspapers, as well as online publications.

Nixon is a full member of Poetry Circle of Cape Town that meets every second week of every month at Cape Town Central Library and Storymoja of Kenya. Last year, he attended The New Playwriting Programme workshop at Artscape under Professor Roy Sargeant and  has completed two stage plays and a short screenplay.

Currently, he is rewriting his two unpublished novels and putting stories together for the documentary about immigrants in South Africa. Nixon lives in Grassy Park, Cape Town.

Nixon’s Short Story Tears of a Mother (Published in 4 parts) was voted in as the Story of the Week during the month of October.

SANDRA A. MUSHI

Rhythm of my Rhyme

Sandra Mushi was born in Dar es Salaam, grew up in the UK and was educated in Tanzania, Botswana and South Africa.  She is an interior design architect with a very strong passion for writing.

She is the author of the acclaimed The Rhythmn Of My Rhyme, a collection of soulful poems, which has been received and sold well both in Tanzania and outside Tanzania. Her love for writing, reading, painting and drawing, started at quite a young age.  When Sandra was a toddler, her mother then attending university would give her scraps of papers and crayons – so as to not distract her from her homework and keep her young daughter busy – and this still works to this day, with books.

While Sandra always wrote, drew and painted and as a teenage – whenever time was of abundance, sadly she had to put this passion aside when she started university.  It was in April 2004 when she was on holiday – inspired by nature, the wilderness; Jill Scott, India Arie; Maya Angelou and Iyanla Vanzant – she started writing again.  This time she attempted something she had never tried before; poetry.  Thrilled with what she had written she decided to share it with the world through the world wide web – and as they say “the rest is history.”

Some of Sandra’s works can be seen at www.sandrasden.com and on her blog www.saharasoulfood.wordpress.com.  Sandra has also written columns and articles for Bang magazine, The Citizen and The Express newspapers.

Sandra’s short story  Plate of Ugali was voted Story of the Week during the Month of October

DOMINIC OTIANGA

Dominic Otianga

I’m a Kenyan-born German resident of Freiburg city, a writer of fictions, newspaper articles and real-life stories. Most of my articles have been published in UK, Botswana, Australia and US and can easily be accessed online I’m the author of the recently published novel, United by a strong force of Separation- A crime & detective (Terrorism) and romance fiction set in the USA, Middle East and East Africa in the post August 7th and beyond September 11^th with the message of religious tolerance. I’m currently working towards finishing my second novel about the visible yet ignored and left untold- The story of immigration, integration and bread & butter issues in Germany and some European countries. This is a story based on my observation, experience and research.

Website: www.domnicotianga.com

Dominic’s short story Driving Licence was voted Story of the Week during the Month of October.