Contributing to the ‘poetics’ of pan-Africanism started by Kioi Wa Mbugua and Tajudeen Abdul Raheem: the debate reminded me of a poem I penned during a gathering of African feminists. Failed, still-born or germinating, Africa’s freedom-dreams are dreamed. But are they really only ever dreamed in the masculine…….?
Womanrise!
glide
the figure 8
across these Mnyarwanda hips
these Mswahili
Mswazi
Ashanti
Xhosa
ride
the slow...read more [4]
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[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3993
[2] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3312
[3] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/207
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/print/28292
[5] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3318
[6] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/letters/28129