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riting’s on the wall: A mural at a vigil for George Floyd on 25 May , two years after he was killed by Minneapolis police.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History Month: What is there to embrace?

The sanitising of Martin Luther King’s legacy sustains the racial violence in the United States

  • Kim M Reynolds
13 min read
Refugee: Like Seven of Nine (above), the heroine in ‘Star Trek’, Said Shaiye, the author of ‘Are You Borg Now?’, admits to a limited emotional range.
ARE YOU BORG NOW

An inner dialogue about a Somali in America

Said Shaiye’s memoir refuses vulnerability in favour of macho, compelling inner dialogue

  • Glen Retief
4 min read