Silence
Thoughts On #BlackLivesMatter
VOICES OF BEing
She Said By Ethnite So many voices speak out, They call out for introspection, self-love and the ever so elusive self-acceptance. They have their whys and hows on my this and that, And here we are; Just me and you. When it comes to facing you I struggle to see me in you. You’re just …
What are we really celebrating?
Growing up in the new South Africa, a South Africa which is obsessed with the idea of a Rainbow Nation, and in practicality that idea a façade, one is forced to rethink the importance of a Human Rights Day. At the dawn of our coming of age democracy, eleven of the dominant cultures were recognized …
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
The book feels like two walls closing in, a feeling that is needed because that’s what reality does. The tragicness in most of the poems trigger a challenge to the reader to think about Rape, sexual and the offenders that live amongst us. Challenging you to assume the position of those in war and an …
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The Hairdresser in Harare by Tendai Huchu
With my addictive nature coupled with the Tendai effortless skills, I throughly enjoyed it. My only problem with it, obviously being the way most characters hold the U.K. up as a kind of social ideal, I believes that Africa can still rise to greater heights, the hoisting of the U.K. nearly threw me off. Then …
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
This book is one of the most complex I’ve read. Bessie Head as a realist writer, her characters and their relationships aren’t shallow. Which makes it easier to follow the/ir development. There’s an an autobiographic feel about the story; Just like Head, the protagonist, Makhaya, was a journalist in apartheid South Africa who emigrates and …
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What a book, what a writer. Easily into my top 10 favourite books. Extremism of any form is bad, the book successful brings this across. Besides drawing a lot of parallels with Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, some of the characters take the same form as those in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Eugene …
Holding My Breath by Ace Moloi
Having shared spaces with Ace at University of the Free State and in student media, the book is somewhat of an ‘awe-striking’ experience. I also can attest to the frustrations with the institutional and structural issues that the university and the department of communication impose on unsuspecting young students. Ace’s story is a classical South …
Where is the ramp?
It was at her Miss World crowning in December 2014 that Rolene Strauss set the ball rolling for a new tide of a different type of beauty queen from the traditional and now stereotyped During her run-up and time at the pageant, the Kovsie Medical student vowed to change and give hope to the most …
Decolonization: More a need than a want.
With the dawn of democracy, access to a different group of society was afforded in Institutions and campuses that wasn’t built to accommodate that group. Twenty one years later into that democracy, the structures, culture and curriculum that held these spaces are still as static to their imperial inception as ever. In all its forms, …