Starting my PhD in 2016, I felt accelerated by the prospect of conducting interviews across Cape Town for my anthropological Tinder study. Fortunately, these were the pre-Covid 19 days and I successfully managed to recruit participants via the app and …
I’ve been trying to think back to when (and how) I first stumbled upon Lydia Violeta’s channel on YouTube. It was somewhere towards the beginning of lockdown – a chunk of time that no one can quite coherently reconstruct! In the midst of the …
While the world is up in arms, united against the Covid-19 pandemic, some of us are studying a degree in the Humanities. The big and right question to ask of course at this moment is what would a BA or MA or PhD in the Arts and Humanities help a studen…
After completing high school, many students aspire to move on to the next step of their academic journey. My path took an unfortunate turn, as the marks I attained were too low for admission into the University degrees I intended to study. As a consequ…
I was born on 4 June 1995 in Parktown – a South African with Portuguese heritage. I grew up with a single sibling, my older brother Marcio, who I always looked up to. Looking back, I think it was his intelligence and ability to teach me right fro…
At the age of 32, it feels like a very long time ago that I worked as a journalist in my early 20s. It is the profession I saw myself growing into when I was younger and the one that I approached with vigour after school through various internships. My…
“What 2020 taught us is to make plans with a pencil…” Here is to the start of a new year for the SAYAS blog. Although (or because?) many of us challenged our fates by saying the year cannot be worse than the previous one, for some of us the first month…
Do we benefit from scientific advancement equally? December 2nd 1921, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson is admitted into the Toronto General Hospital. Emaciated and weighing just 29.5 kilograms, suffering from severe diabetes in a time where treatment could…
Show me one person that did not change their initial plans in 2020… That was definitely not me – neither in my professional or personal life. The year started promising myself I will ask the right questions, and not necessarily stress to find the answe…
IS IT REALLY THE TIME OF A NEW AMERICANA? Starting with the End of Narnia and Ending with the USA that I’m invested in too Naugle (2002) used a fictious story written by C.S. Lewis of a magical land called Narnia to underscore tha…
