Category: The Arts

  • Utajua Hujui: The Checkered Story Of Too Early For Birds

    Utajua Hujui: The Checkered Story Of Too Early For Birds

    Sunday evening. 11 November 2022. Jain Bhavan Auditorium, Loresho.  Par Can lights glimmer starkly above the cast standing hip to hip. Hand in hand. Crew members in a horizontal file behind them. The auditorium lights dim slowly, the cast and crew bow to a chorus of spontaneous applause; rumour has it that this time for…

  • Body Art, Like Drip, Is Forever

    Body Art, Like Drip, Is Forever

    Whilst the practice of traditional scarification and tattooing is now considered primitive and even outlawed in some African countries, the age-old ritual is not quite dead. Instead, body art has transmogrified into modern cultures in cities across Africa, with the young and the young at heart now finding it fashionable to sport a tattoo for…