When everything else in your world seems to be falling apart and the pressure of keeping things and yourself together takes its toll, you need a time-out from the rest of the world to recharge. Usually things fall apart when you really can’t afford to leave your world: during exam time, during the annual audit...
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Letters To My Younger Sisters (Part 3)
Dear Little Sister What I have oft admired about the territorial markings of beasts is that they signify a protective order; they are defensive marks [they let you know that you are about to enter a lion’s den ∙ at you peril]. Men display similar behaviour in that they are not overly suspicious of a...
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Maid (watch your chance …)
This is a black Cinderella story, which is amazing because we need to tell our own stories. Salute to Chevelin illustrators from Haiti who are doing a phenomenal job. Chevelin illustration is an haitian art studio and comics publisher, dedicated to drawing and sequential art. Established in 2012 in Haiti, Chevelin illustration is both a...
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Tristan Walker: The Visible Man …
He is posted up in the vestibule of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California, where the hottest venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz, has just hosted a screening of a new documentary starring the rapper Nas. Nas is here, too, but from the way Tristan Walker works the crowd of nearly 1,000, you’d...
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Barack Obama Homecoming!
Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States and the first African American president at the White House. He is the first ever seating president to address the African Union. Before he addressed the AU in Addis Ababa, president Obama visited his ancestral and his father’s birth place; Kenya. He went...
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The Truth About It All
Hello ladies and gentlemen, This week I wanted to share a few truths I’ve come to accept. I wrote this a while back and I thought it would be great to remind myself to see if I still feel the same. Hope you enjoy it. You see the truth about it all, is that like everyone...
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Fatherhood: Linda & Phiwe
This is Phiwe and her father Linda, these two hardly miss Thesis Social Jam Sessions. So in my regular Thesis shoots, I came across this pair that seemed to get along so well, Linda and I got acquainted and so we decided we would get together to capture him and Phiwe one of these days...
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Nkandla PR Chess …
If we are employing dramatics, and in our theatre of manufactured outrage President Jacob Zuma is Public Enemy Number 1, then black success is Public Enemy The Original. Everybody hates black success. And nobody hates black success more than black people. We have been conditioned to. Along with our conditioning to suffer, to accept poverty,...
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Your Relationship Has Probably Already Ended, Only You Don’t Know It.
That time you found out the love of your life had been cheating on you for the past several weeks or months or years. How about that time you realized how much of a toxic relationship you were in only after leaving the person you once thought you can’t live without? You just can’t help...
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Marvin says… Bulk up this winter
Imagine for one minute that cars are professional boxers. Hatchbacks and small sedans are your lightweights, your mid-executive saloons are flyweight with the bigger executive sedans occupying the welterweights division. Next to weigh in are the middleweights and cruiserweights, where speed, precision and power need to be used to devastating effect against the opposition, think...