Celebrating an African Experience
Zuka Arts Guild presents Janet Riehl’s exhibit CELEBRATING AN AFRICAN EXPERIENCE Part of Old North St. Louis Community Art Walk (Caption: “Naledi in the Underworld” Painting and photograph by Janet Grace Riehl) OPENING: Friday, September 2, 2016, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. ARTIST TALK: Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 2 p.m. WHERE: 2701…
20 images still available! Contact Janet to reserve your image or attend the Gallery Talk at Portfolio (3514 Delmar) on August 21, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.
This book should be required reading for all Peace Corps Volunteers!–Erwin A. Thompson, my father praising Mary Trimble’s new book “Tubob” ( My father’s written 40 novels. At almost 97 he delights in reading these on his computer screen, which helps with his failing eyesight. He rarely reads books written by others. And so it…
Tea drinking. I started in earnest in Africa during my five years in Ghana and Botswana. Alexander McCall Smith’s Number One Ladies Detective Agency series catches the gentle humor and graciousness in this Southern African country with one of the most stable democracies in the world (not just in Africa). Tea is the drink that…
I’ve lived so many places in my life that long term friends are precious.They hold the thread of my life. They knew me when and they know me now. Thus it is with Alan and Mary Brody. We met in 1973 in Ghana, West Africa when we were all young. The Brody’s went on to…
POSTSCRIPT at the beginning. Please read Grace Mkombozi’s comment below and my response. Grace shows us that we cannot know the truth–especially looking in from the outside. Even in documentaries what is documented can be very different than what we see on the screen. I have done enough community development work in the United States…
Africa is all about the undulating line. Linear functions don’t apply.
“Africa is a continent, not a country!” Have you noticed that folks all too often flatten out the mind-spinning variety of African topography, countries, cultures, languages, beliefs, architecture, conflicts, joys and sorrows…by referring to the single word “Africa”? It’s easy to do. I’ve done it myself. But, remember the nuance. Remember the vastness.
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Damaria Senne is a writer based in Johannesburg. She chats about her life as a writer and mother on Storypot. In addition to writing about technology(www.jcse.org.za) , she also blogs for OneLove, a regional HIV prevention campaign spanning 9 countries Southern Africa. The campaign encourages people to have one sexual partner at a time, and…