New York Times, My Mother: The Reader I’ve Always Wanted But May Never Have (2023).
What My Father Looked Like, New York Times, 2009.
The Wound of Multilingualism, de Standaard, LitHub, & translated into Italian, Turkish.
Writing Like Degas Paints: on the power of nudity. Oct 2018. Essay shortlisted for the Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces 2019, and on the list of Brittle Paper’s African Literary Digest: 101 Notable Pieces of 2018.
How Do Writers Without Access to Books Develop a Craft? LitHub, translated into several languages.
In Search of Beauty: Blackness As A Poem In Saudi Arabia, April 2019. Translated into Hebrew, Dutch, Italian.
The Storytellers of the Earth. August 2020. Anthology edited by John Freeman about climate change and inequality.
The Voices I Overcame To Write Silence Is My Mother Tongue. Dec 2019. Translated into Dutch.
Literature, censorship and freedom. The Author magazine, society of authors summer 2018 issue.
The Sexless Life of My Mother, MsAfropolitan blog, Sep 2017. Translated into Dutch, French, Italian, Russian.
For refugees, hope is ever-present in Europe. Oct 2015. Al-Jazeera English.