Diary of Povo
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 16, 2020 DIARY OF POVO Another whistle from election fervent fathers Another ululation from slogan drugged mothers In
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 16, 2020 DIARY OF POVO Another whistle from election fervent fathers Another ululation from slogan drugged mothers In
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 9, 2020 DIMPLES OF FREEDOM Dimples of mighty river donga, river Sokoto flowing honey of liberation, dripping sweetness
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 2, 2020 DICTATOR’S DOEKS Grandma’s sweat bathes the statehouse tarmacs, Poverty shaved fathers are the glitter that replaced
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 2, 2020 PRESIDENTIAL GRIOT Sometimes memories smell like a dictator’s fart We once jived to our own shadows
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2020 AZANIA!! Azania! I have a song for you A song of bees feasting the rainbow nectar
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2020 MAIDUGURI I am Biafra sitting on oil I am bleeding uranium and tea I am loaded
By Marc Eliot Stein, June 20, 2020 “That’s when I saw this whole thing as a charade. I knew it was wrong.” I’ve been wanting
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2020 Kongo Your past is a mint of blood and tears Daughters tearing their way to decay
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2020 DEMONS GRAZING I Democracy does not heal the syphilis of apartheid It never healed the hepatitis
