Abajaan is 93 years old. He came from India to South Africa in 1936 aboard the SS Takliwa. Everyday he catches a taxi into Durban’s central business district and walks. He’s been doing it for over 60 years. I wrote an article for the Sunday Times about my experience walking […]
I have this memory. It flutters in like light through the blinds in the morning. Sitting in the backseat. My father is in the front. There’s a landscape along the window. We’re on the highway. I’m 6, 7, maybe 8. Holding my father’s prayer hat in the tip of my […]
I have a memory of me walking up Salvia Road in a green scratchy jersey with a brown box bag and a short haircut that sat on my ears. It was early morning and it was cold and no matter how high I pulled up those white socks with patterned […]
