African Renaissance

The Northern Areas Odyssey: The First Steps Towards The Self-Concept Of Slavery

We are living in the precarious times of a coloniality-based dispensation and the repercussions of an ill-fated democracy. The working class, the downtrodden and the...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Triumphs And The African Renaissance

How does a continent decline? Corruption. Misappropriation of funds. Leadership, where leadership, the leaders of South Africa, or the leaders of a particular individual...

Letter to genius African poet Beaton Galafa

Dear friend, in the lateness of the afternoon I would like to give you some books as a gift. I think of you in...

Why I write: The autobiography of a poet

Why didn't you love me mum like Paris, across the valley's face, the blood-instinct of the poet's existence, about diaries and the man who...

Yesterday Once More: Me, Anorexia Nervosa and Karen Carpenter

There is no light at the end of the world only solemn-wounds and trees that haunt in the heavenly country where I live. Everyone...

Diary of a filmmaker, the fox and the curtain

I woke up with my hands full of leaves. Marakana and Lonmin are all over the news. My brother the wolf guy, the lone...

Alcoholism: Cloud Briefly Visible For A Moment Above Zelda Fitzgerald’s Head

I think of total exhaustion and being. How it takes me from winter to summer. Then I think of you and the space, the...

The Renal Unit: Paper Towns Of A Borderless Woman

The hospital is a lovesick climate. The blessing of an emerald day. Kite-flying. The fabric of a stream. The hidden wings of a child. The...

Mystical George

The sun’s disappeared again. I think of my mother waving me goodbye with a doek around her head covering her hennaed hair. I’m crushing...

Ode to my Mother

There is a dwelling that I exist in. This far out between heaven and hell she is, my mother is still beautiful. She was...

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