A change of plan. This week I was going to start on a multi-part piece on my experiences in theatre (as an actor and producer), mostly focussing on blunders and bloopers, in an attempt to give my readers some harmless amusement. But three days ago I read a commentary article online which was so stunning …
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This is an in-between week, as I’m giving myself a rest between two long pieces, my review of Dipo Faloyin’s Africa is Not a Country and a series of pieces I mean to write about theatre. So I’m going to talk about jokes once more (though there will be sparks of educational stuff here and …
The Minister of Home Affairs, Lebona Lephema, recently declared 12 voluntary associations subversive organizations. The decision is based on powers conferred to him under section 10 of the Internal Security Act, No. 24 of 1984.
GUN-RELATED violence is on the rise in Lesotho. The gruesome killings of five people in Fobane and the murder of a woman and her children in Matsieng are only but two cases that recently shook the nation. Several factors have been hypothesised as contributing to this situation. They include the rivalry between the various famo …
I was entertained after reading an interesting article by Professor Motlatsi Thabane on the subject-theme of the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution in last week’s issue of thepost. The article raised a series of questions and most importantly showcased an interesting outlook on the pending judgement of the Court of Appeal due by June 14, …
Dipo Faloyin’s account of African dictatorships in part four of his book is wide-ranging, to say the least. He covers specific points in their of history Somalia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea and Libya.
One of the many verbal delights in Dipo Faloyin’s book emerges in the wit and bite of his section headings. Part Two of the book, to which I now turn, is titled “By the Power Vested in Me, I Now Pronounce You a Country.”
To those of us who lack understanding of constitutional matters, Lesotho Constitutional Court’s ruling last February confirmed one of the characters of the Ninth Amendment to Lesotho’s Constitution; that is, the fact that the Amendment is not just undemocratic but it is anti-democracy, and anti-democratic. This is one of the reasons for the deep resentment …
In my multi-part review of Dipo Faloyin’s Africa is Not a Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa, I have reached the point where the author begins to discuss colonial history and its part in forming or mal-forming the Africa of today. Before I review that part of the book, however, I want to discuss Faloyin’s …
AS I move towards reviewing Dipo Faloyin’s exceptionally fine book, I want to indulge in a personal anecdote, one that reflects the book’s subtitle “Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa.” When I was around nine or 10 years-old I got into the habit of helping an elderly female neighbour with tasks such as dusting her tiny …
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