Ingrid Jonker’s Black Butterflies
Let us tell ghost stories. Jonker is a ghost of her former self, but she is still in the land of the living —...
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....
Ecoregions as Geopolitical Subregions
According to WWF (World Wildlife Foundation), an ecoregion is a “large unit of land or water containing a geographically distinct assemblage of species, natural...
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...
Why Europe must back a technology-neutral energy policy
Some observers believe the Europe 2020 package, coupled with the economic showdown, is bringing the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions under control. Bryony Worthington disagrees...
International trade and environment
To discuss International Trade and Environment is a paradoxical but complementary task. While environmental issues are constantly being passed over...
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...