Holiday Reading Picks From The African Bookshelf
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Peter Kimani It’s been a great year for African writing, with Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. South Africa’s Damon Galgut lifted the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Promise, and exciting prose continued to sprout. Peter […]
As Desmond Tutu Goes Home, The World Mourns An Iconoclast
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has joined fellow world leaders in mourning South Africa’s anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu. Tutu who has died in Cape Town on the morning of Sunday, December 26, 2021, was 90 years […]
Facts Now Prove That Colonialism was a disaster
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Joseph McQuade Recently an academic article, asserting the historical benefits of colonialism, created an outcry and a petition with over 10, 000 signatures calling for its removal. The Case for Colonialism, published in Third World Quarterly by Bruce Gilley, argues Western colonialism […]
Kwaito Never Dies: South Africa’s New Generation Clocks 30!
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa When you wake up to South Africa’s biggest morning radio show, The Take Off with Bongani Mtolo and Nonala Tose – Lonwabo Nkohla on Sports on Radio 2000; you can easily believe that you are back to the 1990s, as […]
Good Night, Dear Archbishop!
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Every Boxing Day will now have a new meaning as the day that Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away at 90 years, marking the end of an epochal time for Africa especially his dear South Africa, and the rest of the World. At The […]