About my experience of Antjie Krog’s teaching back in the late 80s, my discovery of her first collection and translation of Geslote Hek (Locked Gate).
We are all so over Covid-19… I know. But here are a few reading suggestions for solitary pastimes and escapes to Covid-free worlds. Have fun!
How the word minaret on the cover of Leila Aboulela’s novel kept knocking until I finally opened the door – 15 years later.
In the Safrea Cover Showcase this week, Marinda Louw, a photographer based in Cape Town, talks about the unlikely angles in her work and the outlook on life that produces them.
The Safrea Cover Showcase features the Safrean photographers who provide the photographs for the social media covers of the Safrea MediaHub.
In today’s edition of the #safreacovershowcase, Sam J Basch talks about this early-morning shoot, and the urge to share his art.
Beyond Touch by Arja Salafranca was published in 2015, so, I am so late to this party, everybody else has gone home! Nevertheless, I give you my first impression of the first part of her collection. It must be just as good, still, as it was back then.
Wasabi secrets and instructions for newbie sushi fans. What to do and what not to do if you want to start a long and happy relationship with sushi and wasabi. Oh, beware, the wasabi.
When Dickens meets Digital in the pandemic, something’s cooking. Perhaps a new storm? The opposites of Dickens’s world seems scarily familiar to us, don’t they?
Every language has certain words which are just so precisely descriptive that you know exactly what they mean, even if it’s a very abstract concept. One such English word is ‘mind’. We just don’t have an Afrikaans equivalent for it that encompasses the concept in its entirety. But today, I’ll show you one such word in Afrikaans: Gewaarwording
With thanks to Adam Nieścioruk from Unsplash for the feature image. https://unsplash.com/s/photos/adam-niescioruk
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