Photo credit: Global News Evacuations are underway around Summerland, BC, after a new wildfire near Okanagan Lake exploded in size. The Canadian Press reports that Erick Thompson with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen’s emergency operations centre says the fire was first detected at 5 am Friday. Still, it has grown to 50 square kilometres in about…
Weeks after xenophobic protests drove thousands of migrant workers from South Africa, rows of sewing machines stood idle at a clothing factory in Newcastle, a manufacturing hub in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. Reuters reports that migrants typically work in sectors unappealing to locals, according to analysts. “People don’t want to work in factories,” said…
Photo credit: Readers Digest Ten years ago, at the height of blogging, I had a charming little corner of the internet where I documented my life with photos, anecdotes and way too many overshares. I met so many incredible people that way, and it felt warm and community-y and good – until it wasn’t. I…
There’re some places or incidents that will never cease to confound me. The first one is death. The mere fact that the ultimate reaper doesn’t care if you were sick or not, once it’s your appointed time to leave this side of the earth, you don’t have a choice. The second is the difference between…
There’re several Yoruba sayings which portray respect. Respect could be to an elderly person, a community, a greater nation, and so on. One of them is that no matter how ugly a situation might be, a father would not take his problem to his late child. Another is that an elderly person doesn’t misbehave. Yet…
I love Yoruba, this song keeps ringing in my ears: Jagunjagun lo nbo;Olori ogunko gbodo k’ehin ogun;jagunjagun lo nbo! A warrior is coming along;A generalissimodaren’t stay behindA warrior is coming! It’s even good that the field marshal is a drummer. He would sound the bata-fuji war drums. The troops won’t lack agbado (corn). To the…
Photo credit: BBC United States President Donald Trump has signed two new executive orders seeking to limit birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the practice as protected under the Constitution. Al Jazeera reports that the orders, signed on Thursday, were far narrower than Trump’s previous attempt to restrict the practice, which confers citizenship to nearly all…
