Things that are close to my heart are history, visual arts, language, heritage, culture, music and politics. Regarding the Omar al-Bashir debacle! June 17, 2015. The biggest criticism that we as Afrikanists must heap on ourselves is our romanticisation of any Afrikan leader who is being persecuted by the West. We defend the most indefensible things, whether or not they are to the detriment of our people, just to give the West the middle finger.

The heat is indeed on and I intend iterating for better results. The worst that could happen is regretting mediocre and procrastination. BORN TO BE WITH YOU. BORN TO BE WITH YOU.

This is a guest post by Estelle Birdy. My Dad grew up in Carrickmacross. To Blackrock, Co Louth, funnily enough. Of the nine children in his family, three had to emigrate and a fourth chose to. All three who had to emigrate, eventually migrated back.

When I was in college, way back in the Dark Ages, there was an individual of the male species who felt that because he had testosterone, he was automatically entitled to the respect and awe of anyone from the female species. Yikes Complete perversion of what t.