emancipate Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/emancipate-2/ Arts and African History Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:54:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The double-dealing douche of doom https://consciousness.co.za/the-double-dealing-douche-of-doom/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-double-dealing-douche-of-doom/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:08:38 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6559 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-double-dealing-douche-of-doom/feed/ 0 The Fragility Of Faith https://consciousness.co.za/the-fragility-of-faith/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-fragility-of-faith/#respond Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:45:54 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6369 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-fragility-of-faith/feed/ 0 The intoxicating nature of unreality https://consciousness.co.za/the-intoxicating-nature-of-unreality/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-intoxicating-nature-of-unreality/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:15:18 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6121 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-intoxicating-nature-of-unreality/feed/ 2 THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – The 21st century pestilence https://consciousness.co.za/the-taxi-chronicles-series-the-21st-century-pestilence/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-taxi-chronicles-series-the-21st-century-pestilence/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:36:50 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6088 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-taxi-chronicles-series-the-21st-century-pestilence/feed/ 2 MAKE YOUR PASSION YOUR DAY JOB https://consciousness.co.za/make-your-passion-your-day-job/ https://consciousness.co.za/make-your-passion-your-day-job/#respond Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:48:05 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5736 There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves Yesterday I attended a workshop with an amazing musician, actor and personality, Idris Ackamoor. With a 40-year career, with lots of ups and downs, the first thing he told the assembled artistic hopefuls was: take yourself seriously as an artist. [...]

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