It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".
According to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 78% of South African grade four pupils cannot read with comprehension
"We are failing to put the blame squarely where it belongs: on our political leaders, our business leaders and ourselves".
Remembering the man writers and non-writers alike called Bra Willie was now a literary ancestor.
"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".
White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they’re telling us things we already know
"Last week in Kenya, I became a witness to police empowering the elite in much the same way as their counterparts in South Africa did".
Solidarity is built when the tears flow easily between friends and laughter follows – binding them in mutual vulnerability
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.