Sitting on the plane from Johannesburg to Malawi, my seatmate was a wine connoisseur, an entertaining conversationalist and a regular visitor to this tiny country which is probably poorer now than it was the years after independence. After consuming almost an entire bottle of a delicious pinot from the area near Stellenbosch in South Africa, he was […]
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Nobody knows
Story #1 There is a public school here which is barely inhabitable with dust coming up from the dirt floors and mud brick walls, Two garbage cans serve over 300 students and the only access to electric is a generator powered by gasoline which is too expensive to turn on. There are computer classes but no […]
Playing the Godmother
There was a knock at my door early this evening as my young friend Rahina and I were sitting down to devour a plate of spaghetti covered in fresh tomato sauce. My pregnant 19 year old neighbor Clarice had come to fill empty plastic bottles with cleaner water from my tap. Already seven months pregnant, […]
The Silent Majority
Monica is my neighbor. She lives in a mud brick room and is still taking care of herself after ninety years of working in the fields and raising eight children. Her son Eugene is my landlord and the only one of her eight children that cared enough to put himself through school. Getting an education […]