by roz | May 22, 2016 | arts & culture, Literature
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom set in 1927 is an impressive play with an interesting history. It centres on power dynamics: racism, self-determination, economics and change. I enjoyed the London performance. This play remains relevant on gender...
by roz | Apr 23, 2016 | arts & culture
Very few people or especially music artists are a genius or a legend. These words have become ‘hype’ in an industry where ‘hype’ is more important than talent. Prince had more talent than we could understand. Prince wrote his first song...
by roz | Mar 27, 2016 | arts & culture
This is just life, how I see it now, do sunsets mean hope or despair, in the darkest of night or depth of winter, there’s no longer an invincible summer, that was once there, this is just love how I feel it now, recognised in only absence and fear, in the...
by roz | Mar 16, 2016 | arts & culture
I came across offensive comments about 17-year old Jaden Smith because he wore a skirt earlier this year for a fashion house. Similarly, when a mother appeared in an advert painting her son’s toenails his favourite colour pink, it was considered to be ‘Psychological...
by roz | Feb 20, 2016 | arts & culture
Rarely do things go the way you plan, sometimes there are unexpected moments of brilliance, but very rarely, hard work is meant to pay off and in an ideal world it would, but this is not an ideal world, 9 times out of 10 you’re going to work yourself into the ground...
by roz | Feb 9, 2016 | arts & culture, Review
Africa is the second largest continent on earth stretching from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope. Today it comprises of 54 separate nations. The cultures and the languages are the most diverse in the world. Yet, it is often...