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Insights of an Immigrant…

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

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 [...]

Riches Left Behind

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

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 [...]

Making Starving Africans Fashionable

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 [...]

Two Different Approaches to Township Tours

By Leon Hartwell
Political Sciences Department at the University of Pretoria
Mamelodi Project Public Relations Director, South Africa