Staring at the world through my rearview Just looking back at the world from another level Ya know what I mean? Starin’ ~ Tupac Shakur I...
On June 8, 2015, I stood in a labour ward waiting for our bundle of joy. When she arrived, shortly after 10.30 a.m., I was beside...
It was a gathering of women. Mothers, sisters, daughters and wives of black male ex political prisoners. They had been gathered at Cowley House, Cape Town...
First of all, let’s dispel the myth that ignorance is bliss. It can be. States of unawareness can be a cushion, feathered down and fuss-free, when...
I was born in March of 1989, just two years before the term millennial was coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1991, three years...
“Kweli itashinda kesho, kama leo haitoshi.” ~ Shaaban Roberts Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, you have left us, but you will be immortalised forever in history as one the greatest...
It is not unusual that when a liberation struggle hero dies, many voices come to the fore, to bear witness, to lament, to remind, to narrate....
“Not until you have discovered what is worth dying for is life really worth living.” Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela Reminiscent of Freire’s analogy of liberation as...
Several years ago, I played host at the Nyungu Cultural Club Personalities evening to Wambui Otieno. The public’s enthusiasm to attend this event was several notches...
We were young. We were exiled from a land we left when young or that we were not born in but that we were told was...
