BY ASHLEY WU Having just returned from a somber afternoon walking through prison cells at Robben Island, the idea of attending a talk about the gastro-history of Nelson Mandela’s life seemed curious – superfluous, even. But at the launch of the Cape Town Globalist’s Seeds of Change issue, anthropologist and chef Anna Trapido revealed, through...
BY EMMA GOLDBERG As we stepped into the classroom, thirty young children burst into song. Two of the children began to dance for us, wriggling their bodies and kicking their legs in the air. “Feel free to photograph the children if you’d like,” our tour guide told us. The nine Glotrippers on the tour exchanged...
BY DIANNE LAKE In a blooming city of business and culture, the lack of racial integration is not only astonishing, but disappointing, and frankly uncomfortable, because I…am black. After being in Cape Town for only a few days the separation of races is immediately clear, the people who live in this city are white, and...
BY RACHEL BROWN As we drove into Cape Town from the airport on Thursday afternoon, one billboard loudly proclaimed “Escape Town,” using a pun off of the city’s name to hawk a company’s vacation condos outside the city. We had just arrived after being in transit for 24+ hours (New Haven –> JFK –> Johannesburg...
BY EMMA GOLDBERG One of the best things about being in a new city is having the opportunity to wander the streets, meeting new people and encountering all of the colorful sites that Cape Town has to offer. Yesterday we walked around a neighborhood called Woodstock, a heavily gentrified open market that one of the...
BY EMILY ULLMAN AND MARGARET ZHANG This is the third Globalist trip for the two of us and it’s going very smoothly so far! We’ve gone on two interviews at vineyards (we might be writing about South African wine!), hiked to the top of Table Mountain, explored Stellenbosch and the University of Capetown campus, and...
BY JOHN D’AMICO On December 25, 2011, Garicchi, a tech blogger and self-described Windows enthusiast, saw his inbox flooded with alerts. In his sent mail folder were recorded scores of virus-laden messages sent off without his knowledge to every person on his contact list. His account—and all the personal information on it—was completely compromised. When...
BY ARIEL KATZ On May 2012, McKenna Keyes went on strike. At the Universidad de Sevilla, where Keyes spent her sophomore spring, students were walking out of their classrooms to protest the rising cost of tuition. Meanwhile, in New Haven, Yalies wrote final papers and stressed about their exams. As a student studying abroad, Keyes...
BY FIONA LOWENSTEIN The popular perception is that “jeeps don’t really mix,” Thung Yee Meng says, laughing. He sits on the grass while a rugby game is played behind him. He looks to be about sixteen and wears glasses. “Do you feel like your friends are discriminating against your jeep-ness?” Koh Choon Hwee asks from...
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