A Letter from Laura Bush
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:43:12 -0700 (PDT) From: “Laura Bush” <laurabush@hotmail.com> Subject: URGENT!!! To: chimurenga@panafrican.co.za Most Esteemed Sir, I write this day to offer you an unrivalled opportunity. If you avail yourself of it you will be a rich and famous man: this I guarantee. The information I am about to impart to […]
A Letter from Home
by E. C. Osondu My Dear Son, Why have you not been sending money through Western Union like other good Nigerian children in America do? You have also not visited home. Have you married a white woman? Do not forget that I have already found a wife for you. Her name is Ngozi. Her parents […]
Homeless in the Afterlife
Death in the diaspora remains a difficult part of the immigrant experience. Bodies long departed can take longer to return. Myriad and alienating bureaucratic procedures often delay the passing of souls in a tortuous passing of time. Florence Madenga recalls the way back home. On the morning of 3 December 2012, Winlaw Muzirwa walked into […]
Nothing but… Grobbelaar
A line-up of football stories wouldn’t be complete without Simon Kuper. In a change of formation from his Nothing But… column, we pass back to Kaapstad for a beer-fuelled encounter with Mr Spaghetti Legs, Bruce Grobbelaar . The Seven Stars are just a small Cape Town football club doomed to extinction, but their training ground is special. […]
Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure
Post Kony fall-out fatigue? Relax, pack a bag and take a break in other peoples misery with Paula Akugizibwe’s subversive satire on how inequality, poverty and violence are repackaged into the corporate souvenir experience. Travel writing in its most hilarious, poignant, and consequential form. Call for Applications Does your heart bleed for the world’s poor, exploited, […]