With New Single ‘Koababa’, Morena Sway Finds the Sound of a New Chapter

One of the dangers of modernity has been the rise of individuality. Basotho love to reminisce about idyllic times when communities came together for the collective good.

Memory is something that is on my mind a lot lately, both the bio-chemical process we call memory and the artifacts that result from that action.

Step away from the edge Stand clear of the fall, a bite of the dust. This soil reeks of death, this would be your end.

As much as I didn’t feel any romantic feelings for those boys, I did feel tenderness towards them, and still do.

The most expensive movie ticket I have ever purchased, and I will ever purchase, was for a film directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder, Isao Takahata. The price of the movie ticket was around $275 dollars.

The idea of ‘normal’ is not real; normal for the spider is chaos to the fly, so what is normal anyway? Culture and tradition, like water, are uncontainable, ever-shifting.

Gone are the days when DJs could exist in symbiosis with the creators of the music themselves, where, an up-and-coming musician, could have their career blow up because a DJ took a chance on them and spun their songs on dance floors, leading to the artist’s discovery by a wider audience.

Through his work, Ntate Morabo has similarly succeeded in guiding the reader to see Lesotho naked herself, where ghosts roam about and she is stripped of the pretensions, even in her naming, that hide the song of violence always humming at the edges of her society.