This was the pre-apartheid education that we received when we were still at school. I was 13, 14 years of age at the time of the...
I have endured the worst possible case scenario. Being locked up in a mental institution for six months while in my late teens, early twenties. Even...
What is slavery? It is nothing more than poverty of the mind. It is not a school of thought or a philosophy. It is scarcity. It...
His boots made a squelching sound. In the whorl of her ear a squelching noise on the welcome home mat. The man was quick. The girl...
I always wanted to be an African writer living and working in Paris. Eating onion soup and fresh bread rolls at a café for lunch but...
Corruption doesn’t discriminate. No one is immune to it. Everyone is fair game whether you’re connected to a high-ranking politician or a powerful family or working...
I grew up with spiritually inclined parents. This meant church on a Sunday. Afterwards people would congregate outside crushed in a near sea of faith talking...
Symbol of Danish hope in Kenya growing coffee I put away wild birds one day and they returned to me as a cuckoo clock. There was...
My youth is finished and along with it my bright star, and tears. I stopped thinking of the future. You know I don’t know when exactly...
My father would read my journals with the savage intent of a beast. What on earth was he searching for? He read it over and over...
