Burger’s Daughter is an authentic portrait of life during Apartheid South Africa, written from the perspective of the daughter of a White, Afrikaner freedom fighter, named Rosa Burger. Her heritage makes her an outcast in White society in South Africa, while her...
This week I am writing about something that has been on my mind for the past few months. Struggle and success. These two words are strange companions, that do not seem at first to go hand-in-hand. Yet, you can’t taste the sweet nectar of success without...
I woke up this morning listening to J. Cole’s song “Love Yourz.” My favorite line in this wonderfully poetic number is “It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.” For me this lyric captures the spectrum of human...
