A HISTORY OF THE WIFE
Marilyn Yalom’s A History of the Wife (HarperCollins, 2001). A scholar and writer focused on deconstructing the ways with which institutions have normalized archaic attitudes toward women, Yalom uses this book to examine the role of the wife beginning from Ancient times all the way to the new millennium—when this book was published. In the …
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues (Villard, 2008), written in 1994, was such a powerful text that Ensler put it on stage. In doing so, her work became a phenomenon that inspired V-Day, a global movement run by activists in an attempt to end violence against girls and women. Based on 200 interviews that took Ensler …
SHAILJA PATEL
Shailja Patel was born in Kenya to parents of Asian origin. She attended school in Kenya and Britain. Later she also went to university in Britian. The expulsion of people of Asian origin from Uganda in 1972, many of them citizens, has influenced her life and her work, Migritude. The CNN calls Shailja Patel “the …
khanya jazz school
KHANYA JAZZ SCHOOL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MOSES MOLELEKWA ART FOUNDATION Khanya College has 30 years experience working with communities, children, youth, women, social movements, promoting education, research and the arts. Khanya College is a community centre, based in the inner city of Johannesburg. Other facilities include Library and Resource Centre, Computer and Internet, Art, Meditation …
