Perspective Africa

Kate's Heart-the beauty of Oregon, the land, the wine, the people

Magnified, sanctified be thy holy name Vilified, crucified in the human frame A million candles burning for a help that never came You...

From the depths of ultimate blackness comes a white flash. Even though my thoughts are new and strangely foreign in meaning, the flash...

Perry knew that there was something special about numbers. From a very early age, he realised that there was nothing on this earth or...

Sometimes, all it takes is a wish for the dream to come true. It wasn’t a new model pick-up. On the money that Sakkie managed to scrape...

The use of gas masks is highly symbolic. The gas mask in popular iconography has come to represent both oppression and defiance.

The exchange was made in front of me. We actually just bought people.

The more something is repeated, the more validity it attains in listener’s minds.

It would be easy to draw a conclusion that African countries lag behind many western countries in the area of women’s rights.

The very places families send their children to be educated have become target-rich recruitment zones for Al-Shabaab.

What was once a respectable education system has become criminal.

America has only begun to scratch the surface of these problems that have festered for generations.

This may be one more leap into the unknown.

We are a country of fragments. Bringing those together as a united, multi-cultural society is a challenge that is still far from concluded.

A window banged but nothing existed except for her dreams and her intense focus.

I was born in a divided city with swans.

My dad’s family came here because they were running away from the mob and somewhat paradoxically, also running away from the Feds.

Dragons must have been in flight in my life, through gaps in the stars

I entered into a contract with the pit bulls with extreme caution.

Sometimes, she was afraid that she might forget. That she might unbind herself quite suddenly