Ubuholi

“Good leaders fully appreciate that the removal of tensions on society …puts creative thinkers on Centre stage by creating an ideal environment for men and women of vision to influence society.” – Nelson Mandela* https://www.instagram.com/p/CfBbRY9MrYu/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Black Lives …

We do not reach enough readers as Black writers. The potential readers we write for and about are hardly interested in hearing about their wretchedness, our collective soci0-economic death. The Black women we wail for and worship at our altars of poetry, lyrical supplications and tearful prayers, are not there to listen to our cries

Songs In The Chi of Love

Stories Set To Music: 1/11/2018 The original version of this story appeared around 2018-2019 and began with this quote from a Blood Orange song, “I can be the only one / but do you even want me to …”; the point was to highlight the highs and lows of romantic love as well as the

Woken

by the pelting rain on tin roof by the thud and heave of the force by the flame of truth by the obviousity of death by the breath of life