‘The Ancestors’ by Hottentot (South Africa) is a brief description of a people disconnected from their cultural heritage, and thrust into a modern age This is one poem that should be read aloud. The writer makes skilful use of both…

In general, books don’t fare well as movies. There will always be a literary element that is invisible to the movie-watching eye Life was a ball in the 1920s, even if you lived in North America, where unbeknownst to many,…

The book is as fat as a stack of Bibles, but the sheer beauty of the storytelling takes all the intimidation out of it. It’s one heaven of a gripping read A couple of weeks ago it was my considered…

Digital media platforms have replaced the old-fashioned idealism of a good book with an instant Internet fix I have a stack of books sitting unread on a dusty shelf. Some I bought myself. Others I borrowed from family and friends….

On the cover of Twilight, the first book in Stephanie Meyer’s series of vampire-inspired novels is a pair of pale, female hands, grasping a blood red apple. The forbidden fruit. And Meyers carries on with the symbolism of this startling…

In ‘Lost Beauty’, Richard Mabala weeps for the sisters of his beloved country, who are killing off their authentic selves for the sake of a light skinned alter ego  In 1968, just as the American civil rights movement was drawing…

The poetry anthology has themes and content that cover a wide spectrum of life, including politics, history, culture, nature, and humanity  The title of the book gives it away. And if the title doesn’t get you, the image on the…