Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• Tales from Dystopia XXII: Apartheid and me 17 June 2018
  What was apartheid? This is a question that has been asked on Quora, a site where people ask questions, and people who know the answers to those questions, or think they do, try to answer them. Several questions were asked about apartheid, and some of them were quite personal, and I tried to answer some […]
• Neoinklings: alienation and otherness 9 June 2018
  At our June Neoinklings literary coffee klatch, most of the books we discussed had to do with people or groups of people being alienated from each other. David Levey had borrowed my copy of 1968 in retrospect (my review here), and returned it, saying that he had found most of it too theoretical, as I […]
• Colin Morris: the Methodist who led me to Orthodoxy 8 June 2018
  This morning I read an obituary for Colin Morris, a Methodist minister who had a profound influence on my life. It’s almost exactly 50 years ago that someone else lent me a book by Colin Morris. I was writing my final exams for a postgrad Diploma in Theology at Durham University. I’d just finished an […]
• Danse Macabre: monsters in literature and life 24 May 2018
  Danse Macabre by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars I first read this book more than 20 years ago, and wasn’t very impressed with it. It was old even back then, so why read it again now? I was moved to read it again because several months ago I blogged on Stephen King‘s […]
• Black Panther and the values of Wakanda 18 May 2018
  This morning at TGIF Nduluma Mwaba led us in a discussion of the values of Wakanda, as seen in the film Black Panther. Wakanda is a fictitious country somewhere in Africa, and Black Panther is a comic book superhero who is the alter ego of the king of Wakanda. We hadn’t seen the film, so […]