The Philosophy of a Village Boy
Ideas shaped by the village. Questions tested against the world.
The Philosophy of a Village Boy explores knowledge, science, African spirituality, indigenous thought, identity, and the territory between experience and evidence.
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Post 36: Returning to the Ten Modules
Permanent employment solved one problem, but it also gave me the stability to return to something I had postponed years earlier. My professional registration. Earlier in my journey, my academic background had been assessed and ten modules had been identified as gaps in my learning. At the time, I had…
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Post 35: Coincidence, Providence or Something Else?
Looking backwards at this period of my life presents me with a problem. It is not simply a problem about whether dreams can carry messages. It is a problem about knowledge. How much can I honestly claim to know about something simply because I experienced it? The temptation to construct…
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Post 34: Was This What the Dream Meant?
I attended the interview in January 2019. Then I waited. By that stage, waiting had become familiar to me. I had waited for opportunities. I had waited for funding. I had waited for different stages of the PhD journey to unfold. Now I was waiting again. Then the breakthrough came.…
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Post 33: Everything Will Be Alright
In 2018, I was back in George, working on a one-year contract while completing my PhD. Although I was employed, there was still uncertainty about what would happen next. The contract was supposed to end in December, while the PhD journey was also approaching its final stages. It was during…
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Post 32: Returning to the Place I Had Left
While I was at home trying to complete my PhD, I continued applying for jobs. One of those applications took me back to a familiar organisation. I was called for an interview in Cape Town by the same conservation agency I had left earlier when I went to pursue my…
Explore the Journey
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Post 1: When the Village Becomes Your Classroom
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Post 2: A Journey Shaped by Circumstance
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Post 3: Do What Is Within Your Control and Let the Unknown Unfold
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Post 4: Does Everything Really Happen for a Reason?
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Post 5: The Situation Is Now in Your Hands
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Post 6: When the Situation Became Worse
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Post 7: Is the Pattern Becoming Clear?
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Post 8: Do Your Part, Even If It Is Only a Drop in the Ocean
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Post 9: When Everyone Started Helping
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Post 10: The Human Sacrifice
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Post 11: Perhaps I Had Misunderstood Them
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Post 12: Was It Really a Change of Heart?
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Post 13: The Hidden Cost of Getting Your First Job
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Post 14: A Plan Built on Hours We Had Not Yet Worked
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Post 15: Do We Just Let His Efforts Go to Waste?
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Post 16: The Handwritten CV
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Post 17: When the Municipality Finally Called
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Post 18: The Interview I Could Not Afford to Attend
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Post 19: I Could Not Afford to Quit My Job
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Post 20: Does Hard Work Really Pay?
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Post 21: When an Internship Has Served Its Purpose
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Post 22: I Went to George Looking for a Job, Not a PhD
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Post 23: Was I Supposed to Be in George?
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Post 24: A Thank You That Took More Than Ten Years
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Post 25: When Explaining the Parts Does Not Explain the Whole
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Post 26: Was Life Preparing Me for the PhD?
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Post 27: When the PhD Made My World Bigger
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Post 28: Building My Grandmother a Place to Call Home
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Post 29: The I, Them, and We
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Post 30: Finishing a PhD from an Unfinished Chicken Shed
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Post 31: When a Qualification Was Not Enough
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Post 32: Returning to the Place I Had Left
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Post 33: Everything Will Be Alright
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Post 34: Was This What the Dream Meant?
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Post 35: Coincidence, Providence or Something Else?
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Post 36: Returning to the Ten Modules