Bernie burns the candle at both ends while Hillary makes Herstory but makes us wait in a long, long queue


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

© quicksandala


Travels in Brown​
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Homo sum: humani nil
a me alienum puto


Do you understand the most important Thing controlling your life?  

                  Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

 Salute to Summertime Brooklyn:                11238, 11215, 11217

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a visual essay/an essay with visuals

just click the pic

May Contradictions:
Stolen Land aka Private Property,
Fighting Political Corruption with Nepotism, GLOBAL HIPSTERIFICATION


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Real Africans only like the Missionary Position!
Uganda’s homophobic laws

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


 


Can we get a Mexican waiter

up in here?

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


Eulogy for Obamaism circa 2008,    

                                              America 2016


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

© Prawny   

Rogue Species


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Some lives are more valuable...


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo





 

Black Panther: African Responsibility, Diasporic Yearning,
One Confession, Three Spoilers (maybe more) and 
Seven links to interesting articles


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

 © Delboysafa

Etched into the landscape







Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


Happy 20th, South Africa!

 

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

 




The Bourgeois Marxist in the Era of

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                                       Surreality

                          Politics


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Why do hungry people

                                like football?
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo 

The World Makes a Sharp U-Turn:

Money and Politics 2016

PROTEST 2017


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Bad American TV shows help me work through some confusions about the meaning of

FREEDOM OF SPEECH
in this divided world in which
one man’s satire is another man’s blasphemy
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


Communal Uber in Delhi,

traffic-jammed ethics

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          Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Brexit and

Multiple Britains,

Hypocrisy

and

               Hope

 

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Seeing the Dentist

in Mexico


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo






             

      
     
      















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Eating Pap at Rosebank Mall

amidst the Global Middle Class


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


Twitterhoea:  
Being in the Present
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo




Dear Republicans…a love letter from the planet Realitatem


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo


Mind Full Entertainment, or,

the Media-Infotainment Complex, or,
Random Notes on Watching TV and

           Reading Literature in
the Age of the Attenuated Attention Span

 
 Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Back to school in a general climate of app-crazy anti-intellectualism and reality TV role models


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Couch-Commentating the 2016

                                    Presidential Debates


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

ART OF THE APOLOGY


Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

When ethnic equals “non-white,”

we are at the mercy of

“non-ethnic” Whiteness

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

James Bond verus

Big Data Surveillance

in the Age of Terror​
 Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Watching Tennis, Mining Cliché for Poetry

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

If Michelle Obama didn't

                             shave her underarms...

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                           Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

The Velocity of Invective:  
Time and Narrative in the Culture of Abundance

Demetri Lallas