Detailed pencil illustration of a man with glasses at a typewriter, with philosophical words on his face and the paper reading I TYPE, WHAT I LIKE

About

MoAfrika
Skotch Ntilane.

South African writer, builder and quiet observer. This site is my long-running attempt to think out loud in public - about AI, culture, faith, systems, and the strange business of being alive right now.

Now reading

Sue Nyathi - The Polygamist

James Clear - Atomic Habits

The Bible - Ecclesiastes on repeat

Currently building

Small AI tools for South African small businesses

A slower internet, one essay at a time

Writing philosophy

Write like nobody is reading. Publish like everybody is.

Don't shrink an idea to make it fit a tweet.

By the numbers

50 essays

7 poems

22,758 words written here

Personal manifesto

  1. Say the true thing before the safe thing.
  2. Slow writing beats loud writing.
  3. Ideas are for using, not for hoarding.
  4. Publish before you feel ready.
  5. Leave more than you took.

The awkward bit

This is the part where I ask for money.

Awkward, isn't it?

I would rather write about politics, poverty, God, bad ideas, good trouble and the strange business of being alive than explain why an independent writer needs financial support.

Yet here we are.

I TYPE WHAT I LIKE is free to read because I have no intention of putting curiosity behind a paywall.

But if these words have ever earned your time, your anger, your laughter or that little "damn, that's true" you did not want to admit to, you can help make sure there are more of them.

Now on Patreon

The revolution will not be free.
Apparently, neither is the writing.

Years of words. Research. Rage. Beauty. Dangerous questions. Not a paywall. A fire.

If these words have ever made you think, laugh, rage, remember, question something you thought you knew, or feel a little less alone, come closer.

Welcome to the fire

Buy the writer some timeInvest in the next sentence

The writing stays free. The writer, unfortunately, still lives in an economy.