“The Magic Do-All Ax” gets the Blue Bottle Tree treatment! Xolani re-tells the tale and speaks on the consequences we face when continually moving from urgency. Without disposing our main character, we’ll examine what may have informed his actions and how we might be influenced by the same things. Finally, we’ll re-imagine what magic truly is and how we can bring it into our lives.

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SOURCES:
- Gates Jr., H. L., & Tatar, M. (Eds.). (2018). Defiance and Desire: Flying Africans and Magical Instruments In The Annotated African American Folktales (pp. 163–195). essay, W. W. Norton & Company Ltd.
- Morrison, T. (1987). Beloved. Vintage.
- Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.