Unraveling..

One of the verses or phrases from the bible that has always made me stop to think for a second is that which says that we were created in the image of God. I have had a bit of time to contemplate this statement and this is as far as I have come. Please bear in mind that I do not know half as much as I should know about the bible and I also know very little about life in general so these are just my idle time thoughts informed by my personal  journey. For a long time, this is how I interpreted that scripture; if God made man in his image, man being a generic term for the human race, God must be like me and everyone that I see in the world. So, since we live in a world that loves categories, God  would be Black, White, Asian, Coloured, Indian, European, man, woman and the list can go on and on. I held this belief for quite a while. When I awoke to the realization that inequality at the level of race, gender, sexuality etc was actually a reality and that it manifested in m...

What does it meant to be woke? What does it mean to #staywoke? Woke or being woke is defined by the urban dictionary as “being aware, knowing what is going on in the community”. It entails being aware of social injustices like racism, sexism, heterosexism or homophobia just to name a few. Being aware of social injustices and fighting against them is not a new concept, but the linguistic representation of this concept as “woke”, “being woke” or “staying woke” was first used in the USA, specifically in a song by Erykah Badu in 2008. It however gained most of its popularity after the Black Lives matter movement, formed to protest police brutality against people of colour and racism in general, used it as one of the slogans in their social media activism. The concept of being woke inevitably found its way to South Africa (don’t you just love the internet?). Being woke in South Africa is celebrated. It means you are conscious of the social issues the country or community is dealing...