Tag: loss

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

Mukoma wa Ngugi’s “We, The Scarred” presents a catalogue of losses – Precious Nzeakor

There is a lot of loss recorded in this book, which is very telling of how this desire and longing to hold on to something we cannot control and the loss of such things causes us to spiral in different directions and to find stability only when the gap is filled. At the core of this book is the fight for the truth and all the obstacles that stand in the way of that