This week’s reviewer is Dennis Mugaa from Kenya. Dennis is a writer, editor and the author of Half Portraits Under Water. His work moves through memory, intimacy, masculinity, and emotional inheritance, often attending to the quiet tensions of interior life. With a lyrical voice, Mugaa’s writing explores how tenderness and vulnerability surface within everyday experience. His work contributes to a growing contemporary East African literary landscape attentive to feeling, form, and the unspoken. Here are his 5 Favourites: 1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie 3. The Devil that Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna 4. Small Country by Gäel Faye 5. The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mbougar Sarr
