The book of unity
Friday, February 24, 2017
Blue, Black and White play comes first in the book with Motswana: Africa, Dream Again being the last one.
Blue, Black and White has been set in a way that it is a play performed by multiracial school children at public schools during their history lesson. They perform a couple of scenes then their young history teacher explains why certain incidents occurred then the play continues again.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...