African Renaissance

Power, War and Critical Thinking

Critical thinking and self-mastery are established roleplayers of the intellectual personality. The journey of life should be to remain self-aware in the event of...

How Dr Jordan B. Peterson Changed My Life

The steak knives were missing. Is there any value in that truth? Give me a little earth. A place in the sun.  A bowl of...

A Ghost Story About An Ancestor From The West Indies

Ella's (the birth name of the Dominican novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys’) ghost sits at the foot of my bed staring at...

Read, Write, Intelligence And How To Think Like A Strategist

When it comes down to it intelligence is all in your mind. It's the blueprint of your childhood, the books that you have read,...

Inhabiting Love: Abu Bakr Solomons- Book Review

An early poem in this collection, titled  "In the morning" (pg.7) suggests that as "morning closes yesterday" that, yes, "it is safe to dream...

The Writer’s Daughter

I have to learn how to trust again. Live a little. Let go of Santa Monica, autumn’s quaint country, cloud people, clowns with stars...

Adverse Childhood Experience (trauma focus)

"I don't love you, Octavia. I don't love you. I don't love you. Octavia wanted to tell her mother, if you don't love me,...

Attempting Suicide: The Human Stain, Lady Macbeth and Sylvia Plath

I was always looking for love. Here, see, my gorgeous wrists that I tried to slit once upon a time maybe because of him...

The British Pen Pal

16 March 2014 Dear Churchill, I was so looking forward to you telling me about your trip to Amsterdam. I read your letter repeatedly and left...

Provincial Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward while waiting for a bed at EDH

I was born into the wild of this country. A wilderness of steel wasteland; sky and street shadow me like the white sun, yellow...

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