Presidential Griot
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, 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
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2020 See talking slums silenced tongues freedom silenced hope killed a bling of ghettos collapsed humanity Mothers
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, June 11, 2020 I see rains of hatred pounding the face of juba Socialists and mongers breakfasting human delicacies