Martin Banjo·Aug 31, 2017Stay in uniform (A beginner’s guide…)I love people on trains; the fiery red dyed hair; the shoes that you wish could tell their stories; the excess material in a man’s shirt…
Martin Banjo·Aug 24, 2017Never Forget Your Roots (A beginner’s guide…)Let me give you some advice bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be…A response icon1A response icon1
Martin Banjo·Aug 18, 2017Breathe In Then Out or Vice Versa ( A beginner’s guide…)You know, I was just me until I moved to Zimbabwe. There I became black and one bewildering morning found out that the guy standing next to…
Martin Banjo·Aug 14, 2017Wear white headphones (A beginner’s guide…)Remember the Walkman? the love it took to make a mixtape? Endless fiddling with dials to find a fuzzy radio station? Remember when you…
Martin Banjo·Aug 11, 2017Dance! (A beginner’s guide…)At the tippy top of life skills , right next to breathing, is having a respectable two-step. I am not saying it needs to come with a head…
Martin Banjo·Aug 9, 2017Procrastinate! (A beginner’s guide..)Procrastinate! If it was that important you would have done it already. Why think of it as laziness when you could re-frame it as ‘an…
Martin Banjo·Aug 2, 2017A beginner’s guide to being different: believe your hypeOne of the greatest lines in the whole wide world of every movie ever made is delivered by Denzel (you know his surname) in his portrayal…
Martin Banjo·Aug 1, 2017A beginner’s guide to being different: Find Your TribeThere are said to be over 3,000 tribes in Africa, 750 Native American tribes and 9 million bicycles in Beijing. Then there are the tribes…
Martin Banjo·Jul 31, 2017A beginner’s guide to being different: speak your languageI was born in a country with a father from there, who lived half his life in another place and a mother from somewhere else who met him in…A response icon1A response icon1
