The Bittereinders and Trump gaslight President Cyril Ramaphosa Trump’s appalling behaviour towards President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House yesterday has created a storm of different opinions about it in the papers and on Facebook. What Trump and Ramaphosa have in common is no knowledge of art. Trump showed an art installation of white crosses (not graves or on graves) […]
Storytelling on the Borderlines of Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
I have been working towards a doctorate about storytelling and this blog is part of my thesis. Storytellers and artists both entertain and to help us survive by making sense of our lives and world. All stories follow similar patterns of a quest, a passion, and a mistake, followed by a resolution or acceptance of fate, as JD Salinger explained. […]
Grandmother’s Sandwich Story
Sandwich stories by columnist Stephen Bush, was in the Financial Times last week in response to Kemi Badenoch’s Spectator statement that she doesn’t eat them. Somehow Grandmother was mentioned, too, so Grandmother determined to write her own stories about sandwiches – here they are. Read at your peril if you don’t eat or do eat Bread. Padkos or Road Food […]
Food, Family and Love
Yesterday I was driven to look at my wonderful collection of cookbooks. I did so because I was furious. I had something to prove, and I knew the answer would be in my kitchen on the shelf above my bread board, kettle and toaster. (I’ll tell you what made me angry later in this blog post – perhaps you’ll guess […]
Kariba Dam, Climate Change, Hydro-Power, Agriculture and Water
In fact, everything needed for life in Zambia, Zimbabwe and the SADC region There is a huge and important news story to be told about climate change that affects the whole of sub-Saharan Africa and therefore the world. I have discovered since posting this blog that the video I watched about the Zambezi River being so low on water that […]