Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
Good Evening. I will use my own life history tonight to argue that it is your duty as scientists never to allow good science to be used for bad purposes. You have a moral duty. You know the difference between good and evil. You must do your best to ensure that your science has good outcomes for […]
Senselessness
Stacy Hardy reviews the English translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya‘s Senselessness (New Directions, 2008, Katherine Silver, trans.). “I am not complete in the mind.” So begins the first of exiled Honduran novelist Moya’s novels to be translated into English. This riotous satire, set in an unnamed South American country, tells the story of a boozing, sex-obsessed writer who finds himself employed by the Catholic Church. […]
Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire
Zimbabwean musician Chiwoniso Maraire, died on July 24, 2013, at age 37. Doreen Gaura pays tribute to the revolutionary mbira player, spiritual songstress and gifted lyricist. Dear Chiwoniso, You may not know me, but I have known you for about 20 years now. The first time I met you was back in […]
Godhead
Excerpted from Godhead, Ho Che Anderson‘s science fiction novel. A kind of class struggle drama/theological discussion wrapped in the skin of an action adventure story. Do as the man says, click on the thumbnails. This excerpt of Godhead is available in print as part of Chimurenga 9: Conversations In Luanda And Other Graphic Stories (2006).
In Defense Of The Films We Have Made
by Odia Ofeimun On the theme of Motion Picture as a tool for National Rebirth and Economic Empowerment, I think I am, properly speaking, out of my element. I have never related to the motion picture business at any level other than as an avid watcher of films. I run away from the television set. […]