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Vumbi la mahangaiko, na kelele za uchovu Hunitia hamaniko, kuzidi ukakamavu Leo niko kesho siko, mambo yataka utuvu Siku huanza, kwa makelele na vishindo Dunia ni mzunguko, haitaki udumavu Tete [...]

We chant, May we dwell in unity, peace and liberty, Yet elections get rigged And our women are burnt, land is grabbed. All motivated by senseless ethnic violence. Shamelessly, they sit with fat [...]

Plunged into chaos, it lies bleeding, a dying paradise, paradise lost overnight. Besieged hearts, feelings, love, unity mother’s, daughters, everything. The little ones, playing in shelters, [...]

Every house is on fire In ways so different Some, foundation, others, roof Trapped in the smoke of tragedy But to daddy, life is never worthless Though his labouring youth crumbles in ash For [...]

With eyes at the back just in case! To sprint or just walk? Directions, please Lost amid the pandemonium All, reticent for fear of their lives Nerves shrieking in pain in South Sudan Friends [...]

Fires of discontent glow all over Life is a ceaseless hustle It is here Where six families scramble for a single dingy bathroom And a sole putrid pit latrine It is here Where despondent drunks [...]

It gets lonely sometimes- sitting alone in the cafeteria, watching people eat with their friends because No one wants to sit with the fat girl. Every day when I walk into the classroom, I feel [...]

And now that I scarcely throw food down my belly I’m learning the art of enduring the rumbling goddess, for the land is in dearth of all I need to appease her. We have now devised the [...]

She is a creature of the wild, a raptor. Men in the village called her, “a monster”, For when she devoured a herd of beasts, there remained no traces of bones. It is hunger that drives her. In [...]

I have strolled into that inn countless times On some unfortunate occasions A dark cold deserted chamber Whitewashed walls shrouding themselves together Deep rumble of eager basses emanating from [...]