Africa is a beautiful continent with an abundance of interesting people, various cultures and ethnicities to experience and learn about. But, Africa is also a real place with people living real lives. If you’ve never...
There's an interesting debate going on, in Higher Education of course, centering on the value of a degree. It's a subject I did my best to be helpful about at a local school careers evening...
Cape Town band The Plastics
The South African music scene is as varied as her rainbow-nation inhabitants. Kwaito music from the Apartheid townships continue to pop beats into your knees, Boeremusiek echoes the Afrikaans identity interwoven...
Among other fabulous photographers, I had the pleasure of meeting and learning from celebrity portraitist Brian Smith at the recent San Francisco World Photography Festival.
Based in Miami, he came to the event to share some...
Every now and then in my sleepy little town the quiet reverie and still countryside air is pierced with an almighty thump, like a cannon ball being launched headlong into the mountainside. It can happen...
Many moons ago – when the Murray River was still a mighty serpent – my family did the holiday on a houseboat thing. For a week we plied the muddy waters pretending to be pioneers,...
David Sandum is a 39-year-old Swede who went to college in the US, married a Norwegian, moved to Norway, and then launched a corporate career only to burn out at an early age. His stress-ridden...
Comrade: Hasan Nasir
By Reviving Hope
Hasan Nasir was a left-wing revolutionary student and leader of working class. Though he passed away on Nov 13, 1961 after being tortured by the then administration at the Lahore...
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