Pan African gazette – Chimurenga Chronic out now @Chronic_News
The Chimurenga Chronic is a pan-African gazette available online or in print. The latest edition consists of a 48 page magazine and a 40 page book review magazine and features writing, art and photography. Based in South Africa the Chimunrenga Chronic includes contributions from around the world, including work by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahmood Mamdani and Niq Mhlongo. Many...
Bicycling in Gambia: 52 days and 22 beds! by David Moseley
Bicycling in Gambia – some thoughts from my trip I really enjoyed my riding there, along all of the surfaced roads, north and south banks, and a considerable amount on the red rough stone roads too. The soft sand tracks often down to the beach or banks of the river were very difficult to ride,...
The Source (La Source des Femmes): A Review
A Moroccan film about water, love and feminism. How far would you be willing to go to ensure you had a running water source in your village? This film sees a group of women from a Moroccan village defy their tradition, stand up against their religious roles as wives and endure physical hardships to gain,...
DMZ Sauvignon Blanc 2011
I have been a little quiet of late, in terms of posting anyway. What has brought on this uncharacteristic silence? It could only be an unanticipated retreat from the world of wine. My desire for, my enjoyment of wine has evaporated or has been perhaps replaced by the incredible and equally unanticipated euphoria of sport...
Hearing the voice of the voiceless at Betty Abah’s Abuja reading
The April edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session had a poet whose work captured, not just personal, but some of the far-reaching effects, on ordinary people, of the challenges that confront the nation, TUNJI AJIBADE writes. “I planned to read the poem, and I had thought that maybe it would make some in the audience cry.” That...
