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The Uncomfortable Truth: Nneka

Fabay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:44:23 PST

photography and article by Fabay I’m so glad I came across Nneka in 2009. I was instantly in love with her music when I heard the song “Africans”. I was so impressed to see a young intelligent woman who was born and raised in Africa urging fellow Africans to focus on constructive solutions through her art. Nneka dares [...]

Flattery: Fast-tracking Success?

Semhal — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:27:31 PST

Are you all 100% 'free of ass-kissing? Do you accept it to be the norm and do it when necessary? Semhal

Opposite Sides of the Border

tsepeaces — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:08:18 PST

by guest writer: Liya Separated by our connection Divided by common ground Enmity no longer needs to be understood Now accepted the way love once was From opposite sides of the border We mirror each other’s DNA Still found soaking the Earth on both sides Almond eyes traced in black Hiding beneath the shadow of A cliff-like brow Without words we do not know our enemy Let [...]

Murky

tsepeaces — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:53:22 PDT

by tpeace floating above the little balls solid insolubles swimming in water young heroine skims small solid things which don’t exist but burst and smear a river before her eyes a world clear as murk shallow water drowning her mind sticking her in this dazzling scene of the real unreal seething & foaming subjective froth of a barely objective reality draping her this little bird whose eyes swim within two-odd decades lost in the grey [...]

Kill Aid!

Nani — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:18:25 PDT

(picture courtesy of agent_of.chaos) by Nani Finally! Phew! The debate has started… It’s a long time coming. Many Africans have often raised this issue among themselves; it’s a well-known secret. Aid, as we know it today, is it hurting or helping Africa? Does it really reach the people it’s meant to? Does it even reach the continent at all, [...]