The Zulu King, Shaka( Public Domain) By Damian Flanagan Once, while driving around the dusty roads of Zululand in South Africa, I stumbled into a small art gallery that had some memorable prints on display.... There was a narrative associated with the pictures--a Japanese traveller to Durban in 1910 called Naokichi Nakamura had encountered a Zulu named Mpunzi Shezi on his travels and invited him and other Zulu back to his homeland, where a journey of mutual exploration of each other's cultures

" For a Few Dollars More" By Damian Flanagan I was recently rewatching the three spaghetti western classics," A Fistful of Dollars,"" For a Few Dollars More," and" The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"--collectively known as" The Dollars Trilogy"--films that have long resonated in my imagination.... It's well known that" A Fistful of Dollars" was an unauthorised reworking of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's highly regarded 1961 film," Yojinbo"(" The Bodyguard").... It's still a story about an enig