Arts & Books

The socialite Khanyi Mbau, notorious for partying, fast cars and rich ‘sugar daddies’ is not an oddball. She represents the new ‘bling’ culture which has now thoroughly become a part of the new South Africa.

'Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage' is based on Laura Edmondson’s experience in Tanzania from 1993 to 1997. It is divided into two parts with six chapters. Part One comprises chapters one and two and is titled 'Imagining the Nation'.

Achebe’s latest publication, ’The Education of a British-Protected Child’, is a compendium of seventeen skilfully written non-fictional pieces in which he walks his readers down memory lane.

The Music Crossroads program was initiated in 1995 by Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI), the world's largest youth-music network. In 2008, Music Crossroads International, a non-governmental, non-profit association, changed its base to the multicultural city of Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain.

Many liberation and political movements that valiantly opposed authoritarian regimes often behave in markedly undemocratic ways when in power themselves.

Every once in a while you read a book that opens a whole new world to you. Or, it confirms, in a very subtle manner, some ideas that want to take shape in your mind. Such a book never allows you to rest; it literally comes to roost in your head at the most unsuspecting times.

As apartheid ended, why did the country’s season of questions end? Why did intellectual input shift from critique to subservience? Why have common-sense explanations of the social world of South Africans replaced searching questions? Why did critical thinking become an indecent activity?

Let me start by declaring a conflict of interests: I am an avid lover of the works of Lesego Rampolokeng and have an intimate association with him based on our common commitment to taking poetry out of the elitist enclave of ‘high-art’ to ma