Nicola Lazenby

Sunday marked the end of the second week here in Cape Town. Time has flown by so fast that none of us even realized we only had a week left... keep reading

Time is a strange object on trips like this. You enter the plane at 5PM and it is dawn in Dakar 7 hours later, and this disorder then compounds when... keep reading

Here are two poems I wrote about experiences I have had while on the program. The first poem details my experience at the Apartheid Museum where I began to truly... keep reading

Kimberle Crenshaw developed the theory of intersectionality, in which she argued that the social categories we use to create our identity also work to establish the levels of discrimination that... keep reading

It’s been about two weeks since we’ve landed here in Africa. It’s insane when I think about how I’m on a completely different continent and 7,806 miles away from my... keep reading

The primary work of public art outside the Zeits MOCAA museum on the Cape Town waterfront is a set of four pairs of interlocking black cars which run along train... keep reading

Throughout my experience in South Africa, we have explored many types of adventures from townships to Table Mountain. I have seen the strength of a country trying to rebuild after... keep reading

Imagine that you were placed in a random, dark room with 20 other people that are your age but you don’t know them. Then, a week passes and everyone knows... keep reading

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Unknown Opression is atrocious to all people. This is a point I trust and I... keep reading

Besides being the name of one of Johannesburg's biggest townships, what does the word "Soweto" stand for? What is the significance of the role of women in this country? And... keep reading