A few years back, a zoologist who sat on our union executive recommended a book to me by an author I had never heard of – Blindness, by Jose Saramago. Took me a while to get around to reading it, but when I finally did so I was completely blown away. Saramago did everything so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Southern Africa’
Storytelling, Literature, and J.M. Coetzee
Posted in Reading and Writing, tagged Reading and Writing, Southern Africa on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Biko
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Africa, Resistance, Southern Africa on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am thinking of Steven Biko. Student leader and a central figure of the anti-apartheid struggle in the mid-1970s, Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement. He spoke a very different language that that of the better-known ANC – a language not of multi-racial organizing, but of autonomy; a language not intended to bring whites [...]
Solidarities and Rages
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Africa, History, Resistance, Southern Africa, The Left, Zimbabwe on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is what I wake up to. News out of South Africa that 12 people – most likely all Zimbabweans forced into economic or political exile – have been killed in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg. Yeah, free South Africa. I’ve never travelled to S.A., but Zimbabwe I know quite well. I know [...]
It Was 20 Years Ago Today…
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, tagged Africa, Southern Africa, The Left, Zimbabwe on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As my daughter writes to her pen-pals in Zimbabwe, I’ve been watching that country’s elections quite closely. And I’ve been thinking alot about friends and loved ones, from those I can still reach, those who have lost their lives to austerity and AIDS, those who have simply disappeared in everything that preceded this still-unsettled [...]
