Political: Africa’s Lodestar, Africans & Arabs; Koos, Zuma and I
Africa's Lodestar
Addis Ababa – a jamboree of festivity:
Presidents in jets, pledging their promises;
size of entourage, taste in wine on display,
Organization of African Unity losing Africa
fifty years, promoting poverty and blocking
development; returning home to beat up
Opponents, jail activists, harass journalists
Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki stealing December
election, stirring bloody conflict, Africa’s
Lodestar is lost, under a Sacred Principle
between Africa’s leaders in misplaced
solidarity, ignoring all evil by Africans on
Africans – destroying all in our continent…
[Reading the Sunday Times 3 February 2008
An Article by Mondli Makhanya]
Africans and Arabs
I’m out of step with the world
and thankful for it – as I read
about growing racism in the
newspapers, I’m nonplussed
I find my own race and culture
terribly boring, one-sided, prejudiced
and intolerant, whereas other races
are intriguing, amusing, fascinating
And enchanting – Africans and Arabs
are warm and loving, I feel their love
and acceptance when dealing with
them; Indians and Chinese are sweet
And courteous; while the Europeans
are cold and calculating, or
distant and superior – I’ve always
been an outsider in my own
Race and culture, even the songs
that I love, enjoy no cult following,
when with my own people, I feel
cold judgment and rejection
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poem by Margaret Alice
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