Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, one of my favourite fiction books. I read it when I was a teenager and it exercised my mind and the way I saw things, and inspired me in more ways than I can articulate. It was the book that made me want to be…
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My memories of Shaun from Culverhay school are all about Physics. Me, Sean Morrison, Shaun Collins and Alex Escott sat on the back row, admittedly messing about and having a good laugh, Physics was my favourite class, after Art. Shaun was an incredibly funny person, the four of us would often be in tears of laughter at the back,…
Today is Christmas… Ethiopia, the only country in Africa never to be colonised by a European country, still follows the ancient Julian calendar. The country is known to have the oldest established Christian church on earth, established in Biblical times, (not through slavery or colonisation), and still celebrates Christmas on the original date that it…
Today’s Kwanzaa principle is Imani, which translates as Faith. My meditation for today is about how do we know what we know, and what do we believe in. On Facebook today I saw an image that tells us a fact. What is it trying to tell you? Is it true? How do you know? What…
SPEECH GIVEN AT THE AFRIKA EYE FILM FESTIVAL – 12 NOV 2016 Introduction given before the screening the documentary Roots, Reggae, Rebellion. ____________________________________ Five Corners of Reggae: what reggae music means to me Welcome to the Afrika Eye film festival screening of Roots, Reggae, Rebellion, the documentary on the history or reggae music presented by Akala.…
Satellite in the Sky (1956) Dir. Paul Dickson Lois, complaining: "Don’t you think that first, we ought to find out what’s wrong with our own world? Why give the whole universe the benefit of our ignorance?"
Everything has a history. Very few things, no matter how innocent they seem, are completely neutral from politics and ideology.
