LUNAR ECLIPSE JULY 27th, 2018 On a routine night the ordinary moon swims through a shoal of cloud. It slides upwards as blotches of water vapour in saturated air slip away eastwards. It’s a dead ball of dirt whose dust was kicked about by two astronauts in 1969. Held in place by Earth’s gravitational pull, it circles our […]
What is an identity? How do we identify ourselves?
How do we identify ourselves? What is identity? What criteria do any of us use to identify ourselves? Is it appearance? Tribe? Work? Status? Religion? Why do we need an identity? What do we use our identity for? To belong somewhere? To exclude another or many others? What identity do we think we have in someone else’s eyes? We are […]
The casual power of good storytelling in Zambia
A Casualty of Power by Mukuka Chipanta A Casualty of Power is an excellent action story that I simply couldn’t put down. It is well told and well structured and so engaging that you have to read to the end. It’s published by Weaver Books, Zimbabwe and Gadsden Publishers, Zambia 2016, 206 pages, ISBN: 978-1-77922-297-8 The hero’s plight My heart […]
Flying backwards to yesterday and arriving in tomorrow’s world
Flying backwards to yesterday Was I flying backwards into a nostalgic and unreal fantasy about a past life? Even now Zambia feels like home to me, the place closest to my heart where I feel most deeply rooted. I lived in Zambia for 22 years and my dream had always been to have a plot of land, build […]
The Ballad of the Public Library
THE BALLAD OF THE (P)UBL(I)C LIBRARY I walked past the *UBL*C LIBRARY where the pavement is piled up in heaps to the shop with non-see wood windows by the SUPA NOVA LEBANESE EATS. *** As I strolled past a man selling apples I saw a gutter where dealers deal dollars and a man keeps a rainbow in bottles and a […]