Poetry by Gabeba Baderoon
1. Contemporary Pastoral Don’t open the door to strangers.Never take the path through the woods or fields.Always walk in groups.Don’t…
Painting By: Cynthia Nair
Cynthia Nair’s paintings draw critically on several aesthetic and cultural influences. One of these is the impressionist, Paul Gauguin, with…
Painting By: Zulfa Abrahams
Zulfa Abrahams is an artists who has taught in the English, Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology Departments at the…
Seeds from the Street to the Seas
“Reviving seeds as commons, through a telling of seeds as story, we move from seed as object to seed as…
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon by Coral Bijoux is an excerpt from the Dreams as R-evolution body of…
Maize
The above artworks are reflections on my honours research on maize consumption. Maize and maize meal hold a deeply sentimental…
My Tongue Softens On The Other Name
In my mother’s back yard washing snapsabove chillies and wild rosemary.Kapokbos, cottonwool bush, my tongue softenson the rosemary’s other name.Aubergine,…
The Fish System
Step one: my father takes a piece of fish and hooks it on the line, feeds it to the sea…
Hunger
So here’s the thing:Women don’t feel hungry. One hears, in fact,That among someThe culture of skipping tea and breakfast,And going…
Mambhele’s Harvest
My grandmother was a guardian,tending a kingdom of cabbages.Leafy, layered planets in constant orbit emasimini.uMamBhele was a general, rearing battalion…