Feint and Margin

Although I believe that  Africans are going to one day rise and take control of our own destiny, I’m afraid it’s going to take a long time to achieve this. Most of us don’t even know what went wrong. How do we know where we are going without knowing where we are coming from? The [...]

Before the day of the DASO advert, South Africa’s white youth had been vastly criticised for their lack of participation in the politics of the country. Instead, England and Australia were some of the more preferred destinations. It had been whispered to me by fellow disapproving white youth that in these newly-found-old lands, their young [...]

Recently, I was reading an article on Africanisation, containing the thoughts of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of my alma mater, The University of South Africa, Professor Mandlenkosi Makhanya. This article got me thinking about the concept of Africanisation and its relevance or lack thereof, within the context of globalisation. The concept itself has various definitions [...]

We are all in a sense, ethnically located and our ethnic identities are crucial to our subjective sense of who we are, but this, should not undermine our efforts as a nation to develop, unite and see ourselves as one people. Ethnicity is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, one of the most controversial legacies [...]

“To be black was to be a beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only us were strong enough to bear” – Barack Obama.   The sun was smacking hot, emptying its bile down a tetchy underwhelmed atmosphere unwilling to even shield off just a corn of infrared from unscrupulous eco-degrading humans. [...]

Terrorism is nothing new. Despite the recent discussions of a New African Terrorism. In fact, one of the earliest recorded acts of terrorism was used thousands of years ago by the Greeks during the Trojan War. The wooden Trojan Horse containing Greek soldiers was unwittingly dragged into the gates of Troy, and the Greeks emerged [...]

A few weeks ago, I read an exceptional book by Thomas C. Oden titled, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, which given the central role that Christianity played in the development of Western civilisation for the majority of the centuries before the Age of Enlightenment, revealed the critical role that African thinking and African writers [...]

The future is now Reality is only how Ideas germinate on stones Plans are like a decomposed set of bones At the base of calculus- Mathematical functions and the use of the abacus, On the pages of life, we craft a way Of attaining the status of a better day

This poem drew its inspiration from the conversation I had on Facebook upon congratulating Lindiwe Mazibuko on becoming Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader in Parliament. Young black South Africans in their mid 20′s and early 30′s shared similar sentiments to mine. A brave African lady slightly older than us decided that we had all lost [...]

“Let them eat cake,” were the famous words attributed to Marie- Antoinette, that arguably sparked the bloody French Revolution. This leadership was out of touch with its population and its own excesses at Versailles seemed a callous indication of looting of public funds, and indeed of economic oppression. A hungry and weary French populace, enraged [...]