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Because they know it: a Southern African stage performer will hold an audience enthralled as he or she breathes life and gives substance and emotion to forms of art; as if he or she is merely going through a routine; an East African athlete will...

It was the end of the first thirty years of my own experience with writing exclusively by hand and in pencil. (Context: The earliest allusion to what today we call a pencil was made in the 1600s.)I began another indefinite period of pencil...

As the progenitors of the term ‘hero’, the ancient Greeks admired and honored their heroes so much that they worshiped them as if they too were their gods. But heroes have lived before and after ancient Greek times. Even now, they live in our...

Anyhow one considers it, bread is the most mentioned or consumed foodstuff in almost every major faith. At times bread is shared as a symbol of fellowship and collective worship.At other times, bread’s base, wheat, is a metaphor for salvation and...

It turns out that there must be a minimum content of tastefulness before we conclude that something is beautiful. This shouldn’t really come as a surprise. Despite our differences in preferences, at art fairs, fashion shows, design shows, etc, we...

Like Dimpho, that individual would be born into a place inhabited on the one side by indigenous people, ignored and marginalised, in the middle, tribal people constituting some portion of the emerging elite and on the other side, settler communities,...

It was late afternoon and the best time to eat lightly. Ahead of me was a young woman, say in her mid-30s, elegantly dressed and with a pair of boisterous school going children, in identical clothes, likely twin boys. She could have been their mother...

For some, it may even be the time they start to dread the increase in their age (and ours too) which is bound to happen sooner or later! To counteract this propensity to descend into self-flagellation, I ask that this year, at its beginning, we...

Although this request is asked in jest, you are certainly not alone in wondering why some things are just the way they are! The following ordinary tales turn expectation on its heads and transform intuition into everyday reality.Sometimes they propel...

Furthermore, according to this report, while just 10 years ago, the annual rate of increase for this age group was 2.86 percent, now it is 4.36 percent, almost double the one of the previous decade.Put somewhat differently, more and more people in...

Usually, such is life in a village. Actually, in a village, there isn’t much of a maze of a complicated ecosystem, but often just a simple human plan: here you will live, there will live somebody else; this will be her livelihood, there will be...

But since 2008, this brief claim to movie-making (about a fearless woman sleuth) is no more – confirming that pop names are intrinsically ephemeral, although in their wake, we may be left with memorable performing artistry! What still remains...

Indeed, clothes are variously closest to our bodies, our hearts, our sense of identity, and our public image. In fact, if we look closely, we will find that this closeness is actually a psychological connection with ourselves.In other words, you...

Undeniably, NMAG is multidisciplinary. It is constituted of the nation’s museum, the African Modern Art, the National Art Gallery, the Octagon Gallery, and the National Botanical Garden: here, representation is a broad church! But what has...

Consider that, unlike women, men lack sufficient attributes necessary to carry a child to full term. You could say that men have chests, perhaps a woman’s womb counterpart.But while men’s chests are good, they are nonetheless not good enough to...