Essays

  1. No church in the wild

    18 May 2019, the plane landed at 4:47pm. I couldn’t help but think to myself, this is it, the journey you’ve been reluctant to make after all these years. Are you just going to sit there, stare aimlessly and pretend that you’ve not arrived at your destination? Visiting my country…

  2. Listening to Sade in times like these

    I think of a jaw dropping scene in the film ‘Children of Men’ (Dir Alfonso Cuarón). It depicts a Black Woman, who is supposedly a foreigner, birthing a child in a war zone amidst intense gun battle. This will be the first childbirth in 18 years, due to a virus…

  3. Notes on a pandemic

    The world as we presently know it, is now disorganised.  Not that it previously didn’t function effectively, but its fluctual imbalance still allowed for holidays, destination weddings and social gatherings before its current predicament - pandemic and uncertainty. Its dysfunction seems to have been set in motion by language which…
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