My favourite poem Nikki Giovanni called Hot Chocolate starts with the words: ‘This is not a Poem…’ So to speak of the Abantu Book Festival one would say: This is not a Book Fair It’s an experience. Not just a meeting place For writers and buyers But an intersection Of ideas, values and perspectives Of …
Bottled logic, pre-sold gimmick. Weak to masquerade as meek for this bottle-labelled week: eat, coitus and repeat. Lucy lose it, she lost it, lucifer on the pedestal with demeanours so neat (stay off the deadmeat). I find myself lost — truth in contradicting fiction I speak. Murmur some Leonardo and Rumi with my late roomie, …
There’s nothing more frustrating than looking up a topic only to be confronted results written from a one-dimensional vantage point. Of the supposed Top 100 Best Speeches made, not more than two black orators feature highly: the cliched Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. None of these black leaders’ magna opera sit at the top …