What's on Mthoko's mind?

Now, that the world knows more about Africa they are bound to be interested in our cuisine. There are many dishes (meals) Africans eat that originated from other continents outside Africa but I'm not going to focus on them & will focus on purely African/African-style dishes. There are quite a few local fast-food chains in Africa including a variety of well known international fast-food chains but I'm not going to focus on them on this blog either but rather homemade African dishes.  1) Sorghum . Sorghum is an original African food. In Zulu culture, sorghum is often made beer or a porridge. Sorghum is said to have been first cultivated in central Africa.  2) Maize meal . Known as maize meal in South African English, it goes by the name fufu in Nigeria,  nsima in Zambia & uphuthu or ipapa in my home province, KZN. It's often eaten with a side dish or with sour milk in it's drier version (uphuthu), made softer & eaten alone as a morning porridge or eaten wit...

To people that know South Africa, they'll know that not all of us are as fluent in English, French or Afrikaans as it may seem to the rest of the world on the internet. We use English online to convey a message online & when we're out in public we speak our home languages. But it may not seem so to someone from outside South Africa. When I look at some South African internet posts, YouTube & Twitter in particular, I can see how it can be misleading to someone who is not from South Africa. From an outsiders perspective, South Africa might seem like a country in revolution of some sorts or a country where everything is happening at once, while this is the case on several occasions, it is not the entire truth. South Africa is as typical a country as probably any other, what sets it apart is it's awkward cosmopolitan nature. A stark contrast to it's nationalist history & background. A history of Apartheid almost forgotten by the world & South Africa itself, ...

Some of us may have seen some strange & laughable attempts at Africans trying to create spacecraft to go to space but let us not kid ourselves, extraterrestial activities cost a lot of money. Money many African countries simply do not have. So since Africans will, eventually, see need for us to explore outside the planet Earth, how can we do so so that it makes economic sense?  We can look at South African-born American/Canadian entrepreneur Elon Musk who is planning to make an extraterrestial cruise ship-like business for wealthy people to get an experience of space travel.  My belief is that Africa needs to be united in it's extraterrestial ambitions & activities e.g. Namibia cannot send a satellite or spacecraft on it's own without approval of a united African astronomical sciences & exploration body. This will prevent us cluttering the already cluttered external stratosphere orbit & gather us more funds & scientific brains for any space missions whethe...

I actually wanted nothing more than a Zulu state a while ago, doing everything I could to rally people around this cause & go to meetings in Durban. Four years of research, devising plans & campaigning for a Utopia  only for it to be diluted as though a juice concentrate into something that should be whispered about. Becoming a debate on who is Zulu & who is not Zulu & how the "Zulu state" was formed... some even implying that the Zulu state can't exist because it was created by bloodshed. But then, South Africa was also created by bloodshed.  Ideally, Zulu will be the lingua franca  & sole official language accompanied with various indigenous languages but French speakers would still speak French at home, Portuguese would still speak their language at home & so would English speakers, Swahili speakers etc. The point was to have a land that has a sort of legitimacy  to it. Rather than the rainbow everyone was so hyped up about in 1994 which to...