British singer-songwriter Delilah’s debut album From The Roots Up has very quickly become part of my regular music playing rotation. I got put onto her by a friend at Atlantic Records in London, when I was recently there. Born Paloma Ayana Stoecker, her...
Where does the future of soul music lie? In a new sound or in the past? How much of your taste in music has been influenced by what was played around the house when you were growing up? Maybe you aren’t old enough to remember records but some of the more old school...
In early March, I had the opportunity to travel to New York on a whirlwind trip for work, arriving on a Thursday afternoon and leaving on a Saturday morning. As someone who has dabbled in the world of poetry and followed it relatively closely, with so little time, the...
Written October 20, 2009 Mediocre. Adjective 1 indifferent in quality 2 second-rate. Synonyms include: average, fair, commonplace, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, undistinguished, unexciting, uninspired, unexceptional. This is according to my trusty,...
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg has a number of different experiential programmes that are designed to change and expand perspective. I have been fortunate to interact with the space quite a bit and, for the last four years, have spoken at...
Of Ghanaian/German heritage, raised in Lesotho and currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kojo is the proverbial slashie, the professional ‘jack of all trades.’ He is an entrepreneur, writer, facilitator, content architect, former men’s magazine editor and speaker. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (1994) with majors in Economics, Marketing and Business Administration from the former the University of Natal (Durban), now University of KwaZulu-Natal.
