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Dance To Africa

Taiwa's Best

the race question according to Prof

Passage from Can Themba's The Urchin

Macala suddenly felt in the mood for the jargon of the townships. The near‐animal, amorphous, quick‐shifting lingo that alarms farm‐boys and drives cops to all branches of suspicion. But it marks the city slicker who can cope with all its vagaries.✏

Sad Afrika - a country without a name

This meditation inspired my own thoughts in critique of the South African identity.. read on:
https://phehellowabotho.blogspot.com/2019/04/sad-afrika-country-without-name.html?m=1

Constitutional abolitionist

philosopher, Ndumiso Dladla exposing the fraudulent constitution

History & language...Sophiatown musings

So ko kasi we adorn our female counterparts with several appellations. "Cheri", "Thikin'", "Ntsaiza", etc... another popular term "Medi", apparently originated in praise-reference to Maddie Hall Xuma, an American-born Activist, Educationist and Social Worker who became the first ANC Womens League president. She was also wife of Dr A.B Xuma, ANC president-general, 1940 - 1949. They lived in Sophiatown.