State of the Nation according to Kudzi Chiurai
Born in 1981 in Zimbabwe, Kudzanai Chiurai is an internationally acclaimed artist now living and working in Johannesburg South Africa. He was the first black student to graduate with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pretoria. Highly regarded as a leading voice of his generation, Kudzi has made a name for himself [...]
The Yatra no one talked about
Much hullabaloo was made of Anna Hazare’s fast against anti corruption, so was about Narender Modi’s fast for communal harmony. LK Advani yatra too has attracted a great deal of attention, has anyone heard about the communal harmony Yatra (travel) that concluded in New Delhi on October 16, 2011. I guess very few. It’s unfortunate [...]
We are all Zimbabweans: Ubuntu Blues
We are all part of a collective struggle. I say this on good authority and many who realise that being an Afrikan means living on the fringes of the free share my viewpoint. We need to build one another to totally break free. The xenophobic attacks witnessed in South Afrika demonstrated the ‘brokenness’ of our [...]
God save Putin
God save the noble Tsar! Long may he live, in pow’r, In happiness, In peace to reign! Dread of his enemies, Faith’s sure defender, God save the Tsar! –”God Save the Tsar,” Vasily Zhukovsky, 1833 A few weeks ago, The New Times ran a story contemplating whether Putin had plastic surgery. “What happened to Putin’s [...]
Calcutta cacophony (VIDEO)
A couple of years ago, my mother, then aged 74, was recuperating from an attack of hyper-tension, which was diagnosed as having some neurotic condition. She was frail, with an ischemic heart and even a loud sound would set her heart pounding. One morning, at about 9.30, a loud and screeching sound started to tear [...]
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