NoirSense

Just me, in my own words

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the idea that intelligence is linked to english pronunciation is a legacy from colonial thinking.

— delalorm semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (x). 

(via chasing-the-aakhira)

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In which my brother and I go West

My brother, who is a year younger than me, and I drove past this quaint  shop on the Johannesburgt…

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Faces and Fashions at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Tournament

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Books I Carried Across the Ocean: part 2

I woke up dreaming of books this morning.  Books I have loved, books I have given away, books I have been disappointed by. Looking at the books I have kept, I gather that I prefer women writers. Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Marylinne Robinson, Toni…

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places we grow into

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on being animalled

on being animalled

I finished reading  Zoo City a week or so ago.  I am already missing it. I am fascinated by the world that Lauren Beukes has created.  In my own quiet fashion, I admit to being also completely obsessed.  I hear movie rights have been sold and a movie will…

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revisiting the past

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African girls who knit

When I found out that my sister was expecting, I was living on the other side of the world.  I was…

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African girls who knit

When I found out that my sister was expecting, I was living on the other side of the world.  I was…

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African girls who knit

When I found out that my sister was expecting, I was living on the other side of the world.  I was…

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Books I Carried Across the Ocean: part 1

I am in the midst of unpacking all my stuff at the moment. Or doing as much unpacking as I can, considering that I am not permanently settled as yet. Deciding which books to give away to charity might have been the most painful part of packing my worldly…

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African girls who knit

When I found out that my sister was expecting, I was living on the other side of the world.  I was…

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It looks like Ainee and Juthika aren’t alone in this house.

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::DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD::

For more from the scathingly funny faineemae and her partner-in-comics politicsofmindLund, check them out here! 

Ha ha ha, right behind you Ainee!

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trying to put the best foot forward

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Because reading is the thing

Because reading is the thing

I love books with the force of a thousand suns. In another life, on what became an interesting foray into online dating, I was once asked for one word to describe myself. Bookworm was the obvious choice. My father was a profilic reader. For as long as I…

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places we grow into

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