Tolerence & Humility, Brooding Letters to Nigeria
Ever since I can recall, road travel has terrified me. It may have something to do with the grotesque scenes of road accidents splayed in the papers. Back in the 1990s, that was…
Together in the Picture
John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black South African self outside the Apartheid frames of negation, negativity and separation. Senyane Boshielo holding her wedding portrait, produced by Alpheus Gwangwa…
Thought Structures, Deconstructing a Ugandan State of Mind
How one Ugandan poet, Peter Kagayi, is surviving the literary desert one step at a time. It is a thwarting affair to talk about ‘Ugandan writing’, a domain infamously described by Ugandan-Sudanese poet…
