by Rutendo C. Chigora
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2015
It wasn’t just a journey through history; it wasn’t rooted in the present nor was it an espousal of the future. It was an amalgam of all these times and the people scattered across the years – some only remnants of body and soul; others – us [...]
Book Review: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
by Ajani Husbands
This is a massive book. I spent months reading this book, intermittently, sometimes pausing for weeks at a time. Admittedly, the content was so beautifully dense that I simply could not pick the book up again without taking some time to digest what I had [...]
BY ANYWAY IMMACULATE BRENDA KAPINGIDZA
l sat helpless,useless and stunned in the searing hot sun. l never felt its effect for there l was only in flesh with a heart stabbed as if by a lance. Gone was my spirit with my broken dreams. So painful was the sound of his words! l was left clinging [...]
Geldof’s Live Aid vs Moyo’s Dead Aid
by Ajani Husbands
The book’s introduction explains one of the most valid reasons to take Dambisa Moyo seriously: “the simple fact that ‘Dead Aid’ is the work of an African black woman is the [...]
by Ajani Husbands
Founder | Director- The Mamelodi Project
“Everyone knows the image of a small starving black child. We have seen it so many times now, but it doesn’t work anymore,”
- Nadia Plesner
Nadia is absolutely right. The image of a starving Black child no longer brings forth the well of emotions it did in [...]
By Leon Hartwell
Political Sciences Department at the University of Pretoria
Mamelodi Project Public Relations Director, South Africa