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THE FIRST TIME I FELL IN LOVE
The first time I fell in love – A poem Of course I was nervous. Scared Paid more attention to the feeling we shared Than to the people who […] More
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Nyege Nyege; Can You Stand The Rain
The dope Kenyan DJ with the girl duo singing “Kenyan Girl, Kenyan Boy” as dancehall. Photo: Awuor Onyango Sunday 18th October. It rained the better part of the day. A […] More
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#RolexInZimbabwe Notes From Harare
I got the night bus out of Victoria Falls town to Harare. This was the recommended option because of the state of the road. Solid recommendation because I slept through […] More
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Should we care about the decolonisation of our geography?
The subject of decolonisation pre-occupied Africa in most of the 1950s to the 1980s. Much attention went into shaping the postcolonial state, whose umbilical cords had not really been properly […] More
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Sons of the gods #19
By Aine Susan Jambia: panga Ebifeera: plural for ekifeera; a coward that is weak and timid Oruhu: hide/skin; an animal’s skin “Boys ought not to go to war,” Kayikuzi strayed […] More
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RECLAIM, RESTORE AND RESPECT NATURE'S ORDER (OBUTONZI, OBUTONDE, OBUBUMBE, OBUZAALE)
The Mushroom can be plucked out by the ground using one hand. It does look weak and brittle, right? And yet, a Mushroom can dig itself into the ground, where […] More
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CULTURE: Why now is a good time for Africa to claim its place on the table of World Heritage
Since 2015, every May 5 each year, the world commemorates the African World Heritage Day designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at the 38th session […] More
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Africa reimagined: Learning from Japan’s Storytelling & Soft power
Japan is remembered by its Asian neighbors as a tyrannical force, wreaking havoc and instilling fear wherever it set foot. During the colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945, Koreans […] More
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WHO'S CALLING DID YOU HEED? WHO DO YOU SERVE? (HOLINESS IS "MADNESS")
A man once told me to pay close attention to the people we consider mad, or lunatics eating from garbage pits. He was quick to add that not all of […] More
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SINGLENESS : ABSTRACT
Think “academics”…because I really want to sound wise. (See vanity!) More importantly, I would like to run a Bikozulu-ish series on the subject… According to a line from this article, […] More
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Beyond dependency & state: Case for knowledge decolonization Part II
In the previous article, we considered and affirmed the view that the modern nation-state has a serious fault line. This fault line subsists in hierarchizing citizens of the state – […] More
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MUSIC NEVER LOSES RESPECT/ REVERENCE (BUT MUSICIANS DO)
From time immemorial, Music holds a special place in the life of humanity and by extension, Musicians do too. Musicians, like Healers, have always been in the midst of all […] More
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What is brotherly in the way China relates with Africans?
I read from several sources to find out how African leaders and the AU have responded to the Africans being mistreated in China. What I found was that there hasn’t […] More
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THE IDENTIFY CRISIS: DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE NOT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU'RE FROM?
August 1996, was the first time I went to Jamaica. Being a Reggae Artist and young Rasta then, that was a dream come true. As it turns out, it was […] More
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#Pads4GirlsUg Is It Necessary To Give Free Pads To Ugandan School-Girls?
How do you think we finished school even before these pads existed?” My 62-year-old friend challenged me with these questions early last year. This was months before the issue became […] More
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The Only Way, Ekene Eziagulu
The Only Way Every night in Kwacha, Malinta put up a spectacle in the village square. She invited everyone to join in her game with her friends: friends no one […] More
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Like Jesus Christ, most of us are raised by earthly fathers
A man on Twitter has killed himself. Both his wife and side kick gave birth no more than a week ago and, according to subsequent DNA tests, neither of the […] More
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