African Renaissance

You, 16-year-old with the sad eyes

I think of you all the time, with love, with respect, with admiration. Why am I so sad? I lost the love my life again. It...

The Chosen Family from Church to Earth

Guess at the intensity behind my words. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ After all that is said...

The Secret Orchard

She wants diamonds, to live in a mansion (she thinks that’s the perfect life), to be the hostess of parties, to run her pale king’s life....

Beauty awakens

There is my reflection in the window. She dances. She dances. She dances. Look at me, Master. I am wearing my dancing shoes. I am dancing....

Psychic, empath or psychosis

Rita is a woman who has had visions from childhood. At night she always left her bedroom door ajar, slept with the light on, with the...

The Reward of Having a Revolutionary Spirit

I’ve made mistakes. More than a few. I haven’t always apologised for my behaviour, for the mistakes I made, the wrong journey I took, the path...

Sola Osofisan’s masterpiece ‘Blood Will Call’: A bowl of green apples, and a book review

"And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing; a local habitation and...

Stanley Kubrick visionary-filmmaker and the journals of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Losing pieces of your identity already in childhood. At the end of every pilgrimage in my childhood, there was a line that was always a painful...

Asking for forgiveness, fixing pain and the language of blood

There’s alchemy in daily prayer when you release that element of the weariness of the world. Humanity when you witness the profound harm that human beings...

The prophets who will awaken someone else, and theology standing on its own

Smiley missed his mother’s touch and her kisses, which felt like the smooth, ruffling of feathers. She worked as a domestic worker what people where he...

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