The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, a novel published in 1968 is about the last days in power of Ghana’s first Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah. The book tackles the all too familiar phenomenon of African leaders that ascend into power fighting for the people, yet end up corrupt, tribalist and …
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Reading the title of this book I realised that Msizi acknowledges that he is a mess but daily he is working towards being a better person. That is why it is said “life is a journey as it is a continuous road we travel on that has challenges, lessons and not forgetting our achievements”. He …
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In this book, Redi takes us back into her childhood with the purpose of finding healing and moving on with her life. This narrative piece is set in the socio-politcal conditions of the apartheid era Soweto as well as Lesotho. The main focus is on Mabegzo, a gangster she befriended as an eleven year old …
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Advocating for the importance of idiots in this anti-fools world.The world is anti-idiots. They might pretend all they like by calling us with evil euphemisms like: down syndrome, slow learners or other shit like that. We see through their concealed and judgemental laughs. They make intelligent jests about us. Others, who are blatant to use …
Like a very silly tradition of watching Dinner for One on New Year’s Eve every year, I have been going to the Kruger National Park every single year — sometimes twice a year — for the past 15 years. And like that guy who takes every girl he meets to the same restaurant for a …
Dear Unborn Child, News of you growing inside of me has brought feelings unexplainable. Dear Unborn Child I pray for your safe arrival daily. I imagine what a joy you will be in my life. I hope that you are a healthy beautiful baby girl with gorgeous hazel brown eyes like mine, dimples like my …
#Day8 Choose Kindness I am a stroooong believer in this sentiment and even though people can upset me to no end, I choose to not let that steer me away from being kind. In the line of work I am, kindness is especially important. Kindness should be what we all strive to achieve (do I …