Thank you

By Angus Shaw | November 23, 2015 |

  Thank you one and all for your warm birthday greetings. My 66th was an excellent day. To use a golfing term, I have played more than half the course and find myself on “the back nine,” maybe the 10th or 12th fairway. I hope the clubhouse, the 19th hole, will still be open when…

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‘Tete Whatsapp, Sekuru Google, Sahwira Wikipedia’

By Angus Shaw | May 13, 2015 |
The Demise of the Newspaper

Further to my last lament on the decline of the printed word through social media and the web, it no longer is just about the demise of the reading culture and newspapers and books. In Ignatius Mabasa’s excellent “Shelling the Nuts” column in The Herald in Zimbabwe, he describes the ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘lost cultural bearings’…

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Identity crisis

By Angus Shaw | April 24, 2015 |

  They found the passport office in the ruins of Mogadishu and gave them out as  new identity documents for a fee. The idea was that they would be recognised by militants at road blocks, rather than the United Nations  militiary ID (below). It was a trick to get money, of course. It didn’t help…

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