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There is a new colonization, just wait let me tell you, enthusiasts. Chills and spasms and sometimes, open curious chasms I fret at times at the looming impotence, Alas! When the inventor is held [...]

Beat! The air explodes in rhythmic spasms of melody Crafting silence into music Mould by mould awakening This tapestry of profound emotion. Beat! The cadence possesses me I douse myself in the [...]

Palms on skins, the strings rattle Palms on skins, feet hustle Eight beats each in quick succession The number of the spirit of the word Eight palms for four tightened skins The symbol of time, [...]

Wino wangu nautua, ya uhondo kutongoa, Ya moyoni kuyatua, na adili kuongoa, Ya mekoni kufutua, yalo fiche kuzongoa, Mlo wa nina sifia, metukuza ukubwani. Nina hazina sifia, vya asili hifadhia, [...]

Every time daddy issued her flowers, It wasn’t the sweet scent that kept her waiting. It was her waiting for the slightest sound of his voice, His noisy throat clearing And his deep voice that [...]

Many travelled far to see him like the great Ogotemmeli of Dogon he was a towering library of tales and like Akuku Danger of the East he was the patriarch of a vast clan children milled around [...]

Bucketing down Fragile soul knocks the wrickety door His ragged clothes drenched, feet swollen Wrinkled, brittle hands clasping flour and bread Sunken, narrow faces of my siblings bleam Humbled [...]

I sat there in silence, scared out of my wits with my heart thundering in my ears. This was what stage fright felt like, I thought to myself. The crowd cheered as they waited for my performance [...]

The flesh cracks and breaks free from its skeleton, And falls back to the ground where it belongs, Perhaps that is why I like mud houses; mud on mud, Not the stones from below imposed above. [...]

The still waters of the night seas Many a time a harbinger of calamities But today they carry the noise of nature A gift from the deities. With the fading sirens of the deep waters, Our knees dig [...]