There are a thousand things my mother has told me not to consume. Strange fruit.…
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Some people think it’s a bad omen. The fish dead and floating along Lake Oanab’s…
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It takes a while to blink the light out of my eyes. I’m sitting in…
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“Many more…many more…many more…” The woman reading the list of our dead says it…
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There’s something wonderful about watching ‘Black Panther’ and not immediately thinking of T’Challa. Heading out…
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New York is a everything you’ve ever dreamed it would be but those dreams definitely…
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At first five minutes felt like fifty. I’d lie in bed with my head turned…
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There’s a special kind of brainwashing that goes on in Indonesia. A cunning assault on…
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There’s a point in every solo traveller’s life when you start wondering if you’re gonna have a nice funeral. It’s a question you ask yourself a couple of times a day when the enormity of being all alone in a foreign country hits you right between the eyes and you quietly start imagining about five million ways to die.
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It’s just before eight on a Monday morning and there isn’t a suit in sight.…
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‘Moonlight’ (2016) starts like numerous black films you’ve seen before. Black men loiter in the…
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If you think public urination, full frontals and Absinthe escapades are just some of the…
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When all is said and impaled with deer antlers, the ‘Get Out’ (2017) image that…
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“Many more…many more…many more…” The woman reading the list of our dead says it…
Your leg hair is longer than your Januworry weave. You’re out in the elements wearing…
Some people’s lives begin with departure. With a reluctant relinquishing of their homes to survive…
Curfew’s just been lifted in Bangkok and I’m trying to hear Malkovich over a trumpeter…
The first thing you’ll notice about Accra is the bustle. The traffic that chokes the…
I’m pretty sure there’s a law against harassing school girls. There must be some ban…
There’s something wonderful about watching ‘Black Panther’ and not immediately thinking of T’Challa. Heading out…
The thing about the beginning of the year is that it isn’t magic. When the…
At midnight just off of Times Square, a dollar will take you ‘Back to the Future’. It’s New York city on a Sunday evening so naturally there’s a flying DeLorean parked in the street, Marty McFly’s hoverboard balanced on two black cans and the umpteenth tourist sidling up to a Doc impersonator slurring:
Listen, it’s hot. The mosquitoes are still pretty chilled but they’re just gathering their strength. Under boob sweat and that perpetual sheen of moisture on your upper lip are a thing.…
