Register to join me for The Creative Employee Workshop, which I’ll be facilitating for Jobpally on the 25th of May 2026 For most of the industrial era, workplaces rewarded efficiency above all else. The best employee was often the one who could follow systems, execute repeatable tasks, and produce predictable results at scale. Today, that…
Every few years, someone declares poetry dead. Usually, the argument sounds convincing. People read less. Attention spans are collapsing. Social media has reduced language to captions, emojis, and half-finished thoughts. For such a “we are in a hurry” world, poetry which is known for its sometimes slow, reflective and layered style should have disappeared long…
The creative industries have a language problem. Not in the sense of vocabulary or expression, but in the way they describe themselves. “Diversity,” “inclusion,” and “representation” have become standard corporate grammar. Yet these terms mask a deeper structural issue: the creative workforce is culturally plural in its outputs, but still culturally narrow in its decision-making…
I do wonder how much relevance this fact holds in the entire globe. “Africa is not a country” now quietly translates to a “call to action” mantra when it is, [in its total essence] NOT supposed to be so. For ages undeterminable, Africa has been regarded with so many stereotypes attached to its existence as…