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Chin up princess or the crown slips Tuck away the shames, shambles and shackles Keep a bronze lock on those closet skeletons Rehearse that sweet smile till it looks frank Conceal those scars, [...]

Edged, strong, and aged They touched the ground. A source of my wisdom And the ability to nourish myself.   They first saw me with the herd grazing about Plans set in motion, days of [...]

Ziliwa enzi za kale, Anga ilibadilika Tukawa sote wateule, bara likatikisika Nasi pamwe na wale, Walau tukazindika Likaja bila kupusa, Wingu la mabadiliko Wimbi la matumaini, Ya uhuru lilifika [...]

Get me that dress black as night I don’t want to mess up this chance In block-shaped heels, I will rock and hop Let’s get to the party, let’s dance Bell bottom jeans would do right The one white [...]

They took Ayanfe from her mother, Taking all, with no discrimination, On a journey of no return, Through Gberefu, the place of no return, Turning every town into an extension of their [...]

A Peppermint Break from Colonial Rusty Binds In the tranquillity of Petrichor, where authenticity grew again in the lavender fields of culture and heritage. Our name, once forgotten like a [...]

Tell us. What do we feel in the land of green and white? The sweet embrace of freedom in that year, Or do we feel nothing, the nostalgia? Minds filled with hope as we accept the freedom of being [...]

The sky is a frumpish mass of broken sheets of restless clouds, Inundated by shrieks and twitters of chimerical birds Watching over us with impatience and anger. Where storks had sought sure [...]

In the dawn of a new era’s rise, African drums beat, spirits surmise. The winds of change swept across the land, As independence flags unfurled, hand in hand. The shackles of colonial chains [...]

They segregated my people. They threw them into the pig’s sty. They kept the fruitful soil for themselves. “Let them eat dirt,” they say. While standing on the blood of my people. While wearing [...]