Now I wash my Underwear by Hand When you first came to my home I still called you by half your name. Your father’s half. You were as lovely as graphite on paper or the bend of a heron, or…
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NAKBA DAY: BOTSOTSO JOINS IN COMMEMORATING THE PALESTINIAN EXPULSION
Ghassan Kanafani Ghassan Kanafani was a refugee, a journalist, an editor and a political activist. He was murdered in Beirut by a bomb planted in his car by Israel’s Mossad spy agency on 8 July 1972. He was 36 years…
Two Poems by Mboneni Ike Muila
Three Kota Sky three kota sky mavovo bheshuka++++++++++ kota..,quarter line 1.bheshuka…go no one buys your tikie dough skelm heavenly heavenly heavenly +++++++++++++ mavovo..,final remains of home-made brew colour blocking bhemuda jimbos +++++++++ bhemuda…,three quarter pants uvaya na mablues ++++++++++++++++++++++ jimbos..,…
Two Poems by Siza Nkosi
the music that keeps me up at night in the hour of dreams young voices dance to the distant doef-doef sound of senseless lyrics drums chant ceaselessly to izangoma who’ve woken the drunken spirits of their fathers the religious ones…