Month: August 2022

An African Road

An African Road

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Their first major row was about the wedding. He wanted a massive affair with 500 people because he’s a popular fellow who knows everyone, but even more critically, who is known by everyone. They couldn’t enter a restaurant, a

Air Force One

Air Force One

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Biko has an eye problem. Blurry vision. He has to squint a lot to see anything and when he does, he sees double. He can’t watch movies with subtitles, can’t tell his spices apart. 

Basically, he’s going blind.  

The

New Dawn

New Dawn

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The fight was imminent. It was like a boiling storm on the horizon. The signs had been there for months; the snide remarks, the eye-rolls, the passive aggression, small stand-offs here and there dispelled before it got wild. Yesterday

Eternal Choices

Eternal Choices

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Early this year I interviewed the Provost of All Saints Cathedral. Everybody called him the Provost. The Provost’s office? Go up those staircases, it’s the last office along that floor. I bounded up the staircases merrily, almost whistling