Swart Donkey

“ Equality of opportunity is a political ideal that is opposed to caste hierarchy but not to hierarchy  per se ” https://plato.stanford.edu/...

PK and “The Power of One” created a vivid picture of overcoming struggle, and of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarship, for me. Cecil John Rhode...

As part of the 'trial and error' process of building a Community Wealth Fund, I am starting an Investment Stokvel with a few friend...

Published in 1959, ' Things Fall Apart ' was way ahead of its time. It is a poetic and layered telling of both the strengths and we...

Guys get a lot of grief for Mansplaining . It is when someone (normally a man) explains something to someone (normally a woman) in a con...

As a Soutie , I spend time in (and call home) both South Africa and England. The debate around decolonisation is viscerally real for me wh...

People seldom believe what they are doing is wrong, and do it anyway. The evil villain doing evil with a cackle while stroking his cat. The...

I want to start by taking issue with the tendency of dominant (i.e. white, western and mostly English) cultures to demand assimilation from...

I spent a night on the Bulgarian beaches of the Black Sea when I was 19. It was the year before the Euro was born, and 8 years befo...

This post is in response to Tim 's guest post on Cultural Appropriation . Rich is a friend from university in Cape Town, South Africa w...

On the most basic and general level, cultural appropriation happens when one culture adopts or borrows aspects of another. Since there has ...

Two ideas I am very passionate about are Global Citizenship and a Universal Basic Income .  Globalisation and Global Citizenship aren...

Other Guest Posts by the Cast of Characters Shivani  -  Connecting Deep and Wide Stu  -  My Fellow Americans ,   The Revolution ,   Admir...

Saint George was Syrian One of the useful things history does is laugh at people who stake a claim. Any restraints on free movement ...