(Partial spoilers). Let’s be very honest. Love is not blind. The new season of the highly anticipated Netflix dating show Love is Blind is back. …

Seeing Quinta Brunson become an Emmy award-winning writer, producer and actress for her show Abbott Elementary has become the complete circle that has made a corner of this black girl’s heart very, very, happy. Picture this. It’s 2014, you’re bored scrolling through your Facebook, and after you’ve finished seeing all your notifications and ‘poking’ your friends, you come across a new BuzzFeed video. It has all the usual content, with the same familiar faces in a different scenario, but, you know this one will…

Goosebumps. Thank you so much for this Itoro.

In 2014, mixed-race American actress Tamera Mowry became immortalised in pop culture and Twitter history. Her now-famous quote, “I get called white man’s whore”, was a tearful description of the public scrutiny she has received due to her relationship with a white partner. Similarly, Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child’s in…

I don’t know why every time I watch a biopic or movie about racism at any point in history, it triggers something within me. Especially the ones that are based on true stories, where the intensity of the events can quite literally bring me to tears. In this particular case…

(Published for Blindeye Magazine, 24/09/21) When I would meet others that would come to Stellenbosch and say this space was a bubble, I only understood it in the literal sense. Located in the Western Cape, carefully constructed to be insulated, separate, and different from the rest of the country. In…

This 380 page book follows the backpacking journey of Johny Pitts and his experiences interacting with black communities throughout Europe. Despite being a photographer, Pitts manages to create his own ontology by contextualising his own upbringing in Sheffield in the 1980s with what he saw around him during his travels…

The first school I attended was called Royal Flight School, in an unassuming country located in the Middle East called Oman. Initially, it was intended to be where those who worked for the Royal Air Force living in Muscat would send their children to, and eventually became one of the…

On the 30th October 2019, news has broken that the South African Police has stormed the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, forcibly removing refugees that were peacefully protesting, ironically to leave South Africa for fear of an imminent xenophobic attack. Videos are swarming all over…