When The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway in March, it became an immediate commercial and critical success. Since the show is sold out for some time and scalpers are commanding upwards of nine...
Damon Galgut’s novel, In a Strange Room, did not win the Man Booker Prize last October. It lacked the novelty of Emma Donoghue’s powerhouse, Room, the historical significance of Andrea Levy’s...
Philosophers and scientists have long proposed theories in which duality is the propelling force of movement and progress - the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic offered a process...
“What has Muammar Gaddafi been up to for the past two decades? And who are these ‘African mercenaries’ who are killing civilians?” asked confused Western spectators as they watched the Libyan...
These are cynical political times for social movements. Revolutionary action is something rarely discussed in serious conversation. Sometimes we boast hyperbolically about our “revolutionary...
Floods are rampant worldwide just at the present. There has been one disaster after another between the flooding in the northern Australian state of Queensland, South Africa, Brazil and the...
The world will probably best remember World Cup 2010 as the dawn of the Age of the Vuvuzela, but a few other things also happened, most of them soccer-related. This World Cup feels more diverse than...
We rejoin Popular Opinion CourtTV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial, already in progress: “… Welcome back to Popular Opinion Court TV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial. I'm , the prosecution has...
“Nigeria is a child. Gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward,” - these are the words of Chinua Achebe, in his newly published The Education of A...
A shocking video which outraged Afrikaners in 2008 has resurfaced, if only to once again emphasize the privileges of its elite, white male students. The University of the Free State in Bloemfontein,...
