Bomi Njoloza, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Do hashtags save lives?

Bomi Njoloza — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:42:25 +0000

A couple of years back we took our rage to social media over the 276 girl children who were abducted from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. We designed placards, wrote poetry and lost sleep weeping over the thought that in this world that has no regard for women’s bodies and lives, those girls were our [...]

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The double-dealing douche of doom

Bomi Njoloza — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:08:38 +0000

My grandmother died shortly after I had learnt, from the best teacher, that hearts could be broken. My first love had hopped on with bits of me to a lover he would later deny, in the manner of all men who have yet to learn that they, too, deserve love. She had lived for over [...]

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The Fragility Of Faith

Bomi Njoloza — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:45:54 +0000

Cecilia is my ex-lover’s mother. She stays in a well kept old age home on 11th Avenue, looked after by a recovering cocaine addict, Kyla, who finds droplets of awkward humor and truck loads of irritation in the stories Cecilia tells of her glory days. This Kyla, Cecilia notes, misses her own miracles because she [...]

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The intoxicating nature of unreality

Bomi Njoloza — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:15:18 +0000

There is a strange comfort in the weirdness of dreams. The kind that gives one courage, at dawn, to host impromptu concerts under showerheads and, in front of mirrors, boast of one’s chest, belly, smile, mole or parts better kept a secret. It is an exciting nakedness, this weirdness of dreams… and boy do we [...]

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THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – The 21st century pestilence

Bomi Njoloza — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:36:50 +0000

Somewhere in the half-alive city centre that awakens only to the lazy breeze of the Indian Ocean just down the road, in an outlandish alley (dubbed taxi rank) behind a supermarket I have never fantasized about shopping in, I find a Quantum – the modern day E20 – that will soon leave for Gonubie. After [...]

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Beyond the Surface

Bomi Njoloza — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:52:05 +0000

I’ve always wondered why women shave their legs. Who do leg hairs bother? They warm you in winter and, with the help of sweat glands, cool you in summer – if anything, they’re a win! Every time the question of shaving legs boggled my mind, the rich assumption that silky smooth legs seem to be [...]

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