My Dear Daughter, I have always told you and your siblings that it is in one’s best interest to forgive. I even joke that it is a “selfish” act to forgive because in forgiving you are looking out for your best interest. I recently came across an abridged version of what Pope Francis wrote about the place of forgiveness in the family. It beautifully outlines why “forgiving all things” are the best policy to apply in all our relationships as one journey through life on this earthly plane. FAMILY – PLACE OF FORGIVENESS There is no perfect family. We do…
Author: Pride Team
There are a good number of black women doing amazing things and making a difference and impact in their sphere of contact unfortunately, the world hears little to nothing about them. This narrative changed when our Woman Crush Wednesday and brilliant Hollywood actress, Regina Hall, began to use her social media platform to promote black female excellence by making them visible. Her Instagram page is home to a ton of information regarding these exceptional women. As an act of service, she shares these women whom she tags as her Woman Crush Wednesday. View this post on Instagram A…
Steven Gordon, Human Sciences Research Council Mobs have attacked foreign-owned businesses on the streets of at least three South African cities in recent days. This has caused outrage across Africa. There have even been retaliatory attacks. The South African government, under pressure to protect her large international migrant community, quickly defused the attacks. Such attacks are not new. For more than two decades, this type of crime has bedeviled the country. There is growing frustration that so little has been done to stop it. To combat anti-immigrant hate crime, we need to understand its drivers. Scholars at the Human Sciences…
Nigerian filmmaker Joseph Adesunloye was all smiles as his sophomore feature, Faces, won a hat-trick of awards in London at the 2019 BUFF awards on Saturday night. The anthology drama (which also stars singer Shingai Shoniwa from the Noisettes) won in the categories of best actor for Aki Omoshaybi, best actress for Terry Pheto and best feature for director Joseph Adesunloye. Shot in London and Paris, the film tracks 4 stories which cover domestic abuse, sexual assault, HIV and taboo relationships. Adesunloye and Omoshaybi were both in attendance at Ealing Studios to collect their awards. Actress Terry Pheto, who wasn’t…
No Shade has been a global success from the moment of release. The teaser poster and trailer arrived February 2018 and immediately raised shock, excitement and intrigue from film fans across the world due to its laser focus on the popular issue of Colourism/ shadeism. With two preview screening during the 71st Cannes Film Festival, France in May 2018, the film received critical praise from film critics and producers who praised the films exploration of Black British race, identity and refreshing themes of love and marriage precipitated by the eagerly awaited world festival premiere at the British Urban Film…
Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria The world of work is changing all the time – and fast. Jobs have emerged that didn’t exist five or ten years ago. And the idea that you’d stick with one career for your entire working life has been left in the dust. The Conversation Africa’s education editor Natasha Joseph asked Professor Kobus Maree of the University of Pretoria’s Educational Psychology Department to explain how career counselling has changed – and why it’s so important. When you talk about career counselling, I suspect a lot of people think back to their school days when a…
The ridicule of entity; She claims to be an entity; yet as empty as a void. They call you an entity, yet your offspring you consume; An entity with no real identity. You bearers of the supposed identity, conceived in hades; Oh, what an identity ridicule, where human ridicule is overwhelmingly celebrated. The touch of times has kept its promise but startlingly vagueness completely rules their minds. The agony of many The Queen of the demon sons and daughters The looming doom shadows An entity long-dead, forgotten An entity that never existed yet amazingly sprouting arrows of hope. What Perpetual…
Reading 1 Wis 9:13-18b Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends? For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans. For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty; but when things are in heaven, who can search them out? Or who ever knew your counsel, except you had given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high? And thus were…
Mariana Brussoni, University of British Columbia “Be careful!” “Not so high!” “Stop that!” Concerned parents can often be heard urging safety when children are at play. Recent research suggests this may be over-protective and that kids need more opportunities for risky play outdoors. Risky play is thrilling and exciting play where children test their boundaries and flirt with uncertainty. They climb trees, build forts, roam the neighbourhood with friends or play capture the flag. Research shows such play is associated with increased physical activity, social skills, risk management skills, resilience and self-confidence. These findings make intuitive sense when you watch…
David W Scheifele, University of British Columbia The oxygen flow was at maximum but it wasn’t enough to keep Aliyah alive. Her measles-damaged lungs failed in the night. Aliyah was one of hundreds of children with measles that I looked after in a special ward of Kenya’s national hospital in 1972, before the measles vaccine was available. I saw all of the possible complications of measles, many of them life-threatening. They left me with a deep respect for this once-common viral infection of childhood. As an infection specialist, I celebrated the gradual disappearance of measles cases in Canada following the…