Anansi and the Wisdom Pot
Anansi is a part of the African folklore. He a popular character in many regions of Africa and is known by many names. He is a trickster character, someone...
A Day with the Maasai Tribe
The Maasai people are one of the tallest tribes in Africa. They are a unique and popular tribe of Kenya due to their long preserved culture. Their distinctive culture,...
The Punishment
A young student had to face punishment because he had spoken against the corrupt principal. Stanslaus tells us about the deep-rooted corruption in schools in Tanzania. A Different Truths...
Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...
tea, salt, and teranga
Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...
Notes on Translating Poems of Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino into English
Every language has its own qualities, not only in the poetic or linguistic sense, but also in the manner in which through the uniqueness of that language, the speakers...
Happy Birthday His Holiness, Dalai Lama
Born on a straw mat in a cowshed to a farmer’s family, little Lhamo Thondup was recognised as the 14th Dalai Lama, in 1939. He was rechristened as Tenzin...
A Foodie Cooks his Goose
Here’s an interesting account by Soumya, a humourist, on cooking, exclusively on Different Truths. I am a foodie. My girth hints at it. I take a keen interest in...
If it is the Apple Harvest Season, it has to be Apple Cake!
It’s fall, the harvest season of apples, in the US. Apples flood the market in every size, shape, and colour. In the grocery, stores these fruits fill up counters...
Tagore and Bangladesh
Had there been no stay in East Bengal, Tagore would have been a split soul – a divided personality. A complete and undivided Tagore is that Tagore who is...