Surprise Party, 1964 By Malick Sidibé My interest in the politics and aesthetics of photography started from an unlikely source: Dambudzo Marechera, the enfantterrible of African literature. In his seminal text The House of Hunger, a coming of age novella set in the 60s and 70s, he writes about Solomon, a township photographer who could...
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Audi RS 3 Sedan: Look Out For This Lil Monster In 2017
“Is Audi the brand that will launch the compact luxury performer segment into the realm of 300kW fire power? It certainly looks that way” Just as earlier speculated, Audi has confirmed that a high-performance RS 3 variant of its excellent A3 sedan will join fray in U.S. showrooms next year, fattening the options of Audi...
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Black Economics …
I have often heard one of my favorite speakers, Vusi Thembekwayo, exclaim “Black people judge success by the car you drive. Fact”. While not necessarily quantifiable, that statement certainly rings true in our townships. Hands up anyone who knows someone that drives a posh car but stays in a shabby looking place. Without counting hands,...
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The Day I Drove A Bargain With My Ancestors …
A few days after I was hijacked in 2015, I sat in my flat, physically unhurt by the incident, not angry with the perpetrators and not stressed about losing my car but confused as to why izinyanya, my ancestors, would allow this thing to happen to their child and how something so dangerous could happen...
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The Thing, and The Fight to Fall …
I have never been good at relationships. Particularly, I have never been good at romantic relationships. Something about them seems to me unnatural. Actually, a lot seems unnatural. There is the rushed togetherness. There is the relentlessly pursued sense of oneness. There is the expected sharing of the self, the packing into little conversations of...
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Quattro Wins For R8: Chosen “WORLD PERFORMANCE CAR OF THE YEAR”
Audi caps its New York Auto Show appearance with a prestigious award bestowed upon its halo model – the new R8. It drives off with the most important award in the eyes of ZTR. With a total of four awards, the Audi R8 is the most successful model in the history of the World Car...
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Maybe You Don’t Know What Love Is …
We sit silently. My friend stares deeply into her empty glass, occasionally shuffling the ice around with her straw. “Wow,” she says. I sit and wait for her to say something else. What started out as a festive night somehow became a long, deep discussion about love, what it consists of, and how rare it...
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The Experience – Steven Onoja
Good morning readers. I’m writing you all from New York City where the trees are sprinkled with frosting and the air is thin and crisp. Every time I look around I can’t help but to think I’m in a painting, it’s surreal. I have captured a lot of content throughout the past few days,...
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Leave It All Behind …
When I was a kid whose world was the distance between home and school, and the rest of the globe seemed more a theory than fact – I had always loved adventure movies. I dreamed of one day getting lost deep in some jungle with nothing but my Rambo knife and a sexy sidekick who’d...
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BMW Explains Its Vision Next 100 Concept
Munich Bavaria-based automaker BMW made headlines recently when it celebrated its 100-year birthday during the past week and topped off the candle blowing by unveiling a wild, forward-looking present to the world. The concept car, as per ZTR’s understanding, provides clues as to what to expect from the German luxury brand’s future direction. However, the...