Zuka Presents Janet Riehl’s “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…

“Tubob,” by Mary E. Trimble. High praise from my father!

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…

“Tunahaki” (film festival winner) shows 200 ways good intentions lead to bad results.

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 a continent, not a country!”

“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.

Kwanda (wealth & growth): Reality TV for Social Action & Community Development in South Africa

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…