Optimism for the Elite
Poetry always smelled like spring dirt to me. In the distance, the future imagined like clockwork. Chronic pain is always both an illusion and...
Anne Sexton Renaissance woman
When you are a manic-depressive, you are married to the unction of your fears. Up and down your moods will go....
A Brave New World
There is power and justice in everything that we read until we give our perspective the permission to see it as thus. ...
Lost in Translation
African writers’ stories have often been fragmented in Africa since Nelson Mandela was released from prison. They have often not been told, put into...
African Cinema
Television, films and churches formed a large part of the origins of my writing when I was younger. My childhood was not as bleak...
The Post-apartheid Dilemma
War and peace. There are blurred lines in the realities of both. A separation anxiety as the paradigm shifts from the air that a...
Apartheid and Xenophobia
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ― George Orwell, 1984 The future of democracy is uncertain after the recent xenophobic attacks...
Genocide
It was the year of literature for me but you, Rwanda no longer have any kind of album. You who...
Adeline Virginia Woolf
Before she began her day’s work Virginia Woolf began to write painstakingly yet in a beautiful old-fashioned script in her diary. ‘Madness is not...
Diary of a Confessional Poet
Dizzying and introspective. My limbs soon became antiques with their own mood. There are frozen tigers behind the red brick walls...