Arts & Books

I will NOT forget
no court can that make
I need no photos
You can take
many selfies with him
and your ego
but I will not forget
what we know..
We all knew
Matiba's brain bled
He bled in his heart
in his soul and the
State did not quake

The 2003 Iraq war will go down as one of the biggest scandals and most odious crimes of the early 21st century.

“One police officer came with a plastic bag and put it over my mouth and nose, and pressed very hard so that I couldn’t breathe. I could have died at any moment”, Bheki Dlamini says looking at the camera, close to tears.

18 May has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day of Museums to highlight the role that museums play in preserving beauty, culture, and history. Museums come in all sizes and are often related to institutions of learning and libraries.

LOCHCARRON, SCOTLAND, 16 APRIL 2015: A unique collection of books, monograph series, journals, articles, and other documents on all aspects of publishing and book development in Sub-Saharan Africa is to be shipped from its current location in Lochcarron, a small remote village in the Northwest Sc

the morning after a massacre
a country wakes nauseous

no food stays down
no chai comforts

on the roads
they drag crosses

blood is given
blood invoked
blood sanctified
blood is our national language

on TV the men
talk blood and markets

we have lost
147+ 1 lives
147+1 names
not just bodies
147+1 visions
not just numbers
147+1 futures
not just citizens
147+1 is the number of your burden today
kenya

The Christian holy book tells many stories. Among these is the curious case of one Lazarus, a dear friend of the wonderworker protagonist of the holy book. We don’t know much about him, Lazarus that is, save for his story told by some then young chap called John.