So to present this explanation of the human condition, we need to find an instinct that we can all understand. Obviously birds migrate tremendous distances, so that’s an instinctive orientation. Storks winter in the swamps of South Africa, then fly around the coast of Africa to nest on the...
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In what proved to be the writer’s last work, Paton wrote: ‘I would like to have written one of the greatest poems in the English language—William Blake’s “Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright”, with that verse that asks in the simplest words the question which has troubled the mind of ...
appearing in 17th-century poems and sermons under the name “Columbina.” Samuel Sewall, a chief justice of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, captured her early ethos in a 1697 essay: She was, Sewall wrote, an emblem of the “New Heaven” of the American colonies...
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Nyanzi frequently uses the traditional Uganda strategy of “radical rudeness”, which was developed as a response and disruptive device to British colonial rule. Her satirical poems, published on social media perform a crucial purpose in using this “radical rudeness” and often shocking imagery, to...
While all hope was diminishing, emerged a man whom the country began to revere, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi became the undisputed leader of the freedom struggle. Gandhi was a leader in South Africa during the anti-apartheid movement. He advocated the policy of Satyagraha and civil disobedie...
“This deeper awareness of how corrupted our world really is is revealed by the fact that virtually the only two things we write songs and poems about is the soulful inspiration of a beautiful woman, and of the dream of the human race one day freeing itself from the horror of its ...