REVIEW | The Silence of the Choir: Prize-winner Mbougar Sarr’s vivid portrait of refugees | News24 The novel is set in Altino, a small Sicilian town in Italy, where 72 African men wash up one morning. They have crossed the Mediterranean...

In which I write about Mohammed Mbougar Sarr's novel "The Silence of the Choir www.news24.com/life/books/r... 🔐

hmm. At my high school smoking was banned but we smoked all the same...

"Pep In Your Step and Annie Field have balked at the water, and Red Army is out in front. Many will ask questions about whether or not this is fair. They’ve worked on jumping more than any other horse, and are now the best at jumping." 🙌 Today's blog is a collectable. Do an NFT already!

White text on black background? like really.

it's a vibes operation there by Forest...

thing is, pharmacist is not going to phone doctor when they are not sure about what's written, and there, accidents are bound to happen.

happy happy to my auntie. mwah.😍 Akule akokobe. May she live to be older than uncle Bob, without the attendant problems.

"I’m just trying to be helpful,” he said again as the packed audience began to disperse. Hmm. If this is him being helpful, I dare say Starmer wouldn’t want to encounter him when he’s being difficult." 😍 *likes*

it rained in Jwanesurg yesterday and today. Makubebjalo Tixo. Abeg.

was chatting to an elder, a Zimbabwean nationalist now based in the "diaspora", who shall remain nameless; his option when the shit hits the fan where he is based is Curacao. i asked why C., it seems randomly precise. They speak English, there are no hurricanes, it's European but not really... 🤔😂

sekuru Gordon argued that people were being killed by witchcraft but those responsible are escaping justice because if you accuse them of being witches/ wizards, they will use the law against you. So we have the untenable situation where the victims are doubly punished, by the law and by the witches

i think the problem with these colonial witchcraft laws is that they insist there is no witchcraft, but we all know there is witchcraft. Professor Gordon Chavunduka's project was how to use african means of identifying witchcraft and incorporate them into western legal systems imposed on us.

Starmer has "force of personality'? lol

Very interesting piece, Phillippe. But how come football in France had never been organised in this way before?

it's friday, ntombi yakithi. please dream up the lotto millions. abeg!

You can never rule out fate & randomness, but you can't but wonder whether players like Bukayo were overloaded, when their bodies were still not fully dvped, and now they are paying the price. Someone who appeared unbreakable is suffering repeated stress injuries can't just be reduced to chance.

as John crace put it in his column, " The organisers of the Reform party conference this weekend have banned some journalists from attending. Clearly you can have too much of a good thing."

same here. The spontaneity of old is lost and the quants have taken over.

Marcel Desailly: ‘I don’t know if I was a star, but I’m now a legend’ The World Cup winner shows Jonathan Liew that he has a firm grip on the game’s pulse and praises those players taking on the right in his native France

Football has changed a lot since the 1990s. In this story Marcel Desailly said he wouldn't command a place as a defensive midfielder in today's game. Football has become "faster" and players have deeper "understanding of tactics" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

i know. 🙂

i have been meaning to read "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" by Les Payne & daughter Tamara. It took him ONLY 30 yrs to finish 🤔😉. He died before he could do it (Tamara used to accompany him when he interviewed peepo). It's sitting on my shelf; I should have a go at it this year.

Am quite a superstitious man, but is it only me seeing a pattern in an unscheduled interview with Ian Wright (formerly of Palace) in the same week in which Arsenal signs Eze ...?

we are 21 AGAIN. Happy happy, friendo. May it be a nice year full of nice things like health, success, and what not.

VivaSally! VivaFreePalestine!

1 israeli life is equal to 50 palestinians. reminds me of life in rhodesia. 250k whites lording over 6m blacks. ratio 1 white is equal 24 blacks. #MathematicalRacism.

i think we should use the term "wezhira" ... 🙂🤔

what you do?

Beautiful. @dambakushamba.bsky.social

ini ndikati how far ?

4: Africans liberate Zimbabwe — Echoes of Southern African liberation struggles Percy Zvomuya

4: Africans liberate Zimbabwe — Echoes of Southern African liberation struggles