essay
there are startling, unambiguous parallels — i am built inside you (Sternberg press, 2017)
boundaries of empathy and identity: on Cape town and J.M Coetzee's long shadow — The guardian newspaper online, 2015
The new, new africa (review) — Los angeles review of books magazine, 2014
Your booty: late nights and french legionnaires in the horn of africa — cityscapes magazine, 2013
The Boys are Doin’ it! — Chimurenga chronic newspaper online, 2013
Steve McQueen at Schaulager Basel (english & german)— Contemporary & magazine, 2013
Letter from stuttgart: continental drifter — The American scholar magazine, 2012
#Kony2005 — the guardian newspaper online, 2012
sodade — Africa is a country blog, 2012
three eras of african pop — Rolling stone south africa magazine, 2012
On the 'white man comment' by Israel's foreign minister — Africa is a country blog, 2012
Cape town: beautiful ugly — Africa is a country blog, 2012
fiction
Sangmele — one world two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories (new internationalist press, June 2016)
dark triad — the caine prize for african writing anthology (new internationalist press, 2011); read it online here
digitalis lust — The caine prize for African writing anthology; listen to a podcast of it here at nipe story
stickfighting days — chimurenga 12/13, 2008; The granta book of the african short story, 2013; nouvelles voix du Caine prize, 2015 (french title: Jours de baston); 2017 (german title: Die Stockkämpfer)