THE DEATH OF LUCKY DUBE

Lucky Dube. Where I come from, his name has become synonymous with all things pertaining to humanity and its self-regulating capacities. For decades, his music spoke of the virtues to which South Africa aspired and thus assured us that even with the indelible setbacks apartheid, we still had the power and indeed the will to self-regulate as a people, turn around our thinking and reach for the ideal that is The Rainbow Nation.

There really is nothing I can write about this man that would really capture the way he changed my life personally as a black child growing up exposed to apartheid South Africa, and simply as a member of the human race.

His death is a shock to all of us and it honestly pisses me off that people can just randomly shoot a father in front of his children, hijack his car and expect to get away with it. Rest in peace, Lucky Dube.

SEUNG CHO: LIFE AND LIVES

you closed it by taking yours.

you upset Paradise on that day when

like a demon,

you took many.

yet like a phantom unwelcome

you had chosen to live yours invisibly.

could i reduce yours to a psychological concept and

damn it thereafter, i would.

instead, i speculate:

what will your answer be when ezekiel's bone-miracle shall happen again?

Don Molosi

just my take on it...

Conflict arose between the refugees after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) intervened in the matter, and improved the squalid living conditions of the refugees. The Chadians got embittered by this gesture as they resent having foreigners enjoy a better standard of living than Chadians, in Chad. They also fear that the Chadians’ economic power over Chadians might translate into political power. Although this may be a valid argument on realist and moral grounds respectively, the Chadians overlook the positive aspects to hosting the Sudanese such as the provision of cheap labor. The Sudanese, by virtue of having better living standards are able to consume more Chadian goods, which lubricates Chad’s gun-arabic and agriculture-based economy.

A similar situation is current in Botswana where multitudes of Zimbabwean immigrants flee because of Zimbabwe’s dire political crisis. The Zimbabwean immigrants although responsible for a considerable proportion of the crime in Botswana, offer cheap labor and also create a market for jobs that the Batswana look down upon and do not take up themselves such as being a maid. This thus refutes the argument that foreigners necessarily take the locals’ jobs. As immigration politics around the world take the center-stage, the xenophobia and paranoia sitting deep in the host countries’ psyche surface. Furthermore, the inseparable good and bad of immigration to the host country can be seen through time irrespective of whether the immigration was coerced or voluntary. By the time humans notice that immigration is not sustainable, tensions are already irreparably grand and there is only one way to go from there: “violent correction”.

HE IS THE HORMONE OF GREED ITSELF!

by Donald Leungo Molosi

blubbery in nature, the grimy hormone drips, sits on our heads from above.

It quivers joyfully and oils itself from your mothers’ blood, my fathers’ sweat.

"We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever."

your hunger is different as it is for power.

for too long hunger made me believe.

for too much desperation, i acquired a new faith and

this new religion’s ghost is a large, round and greasy hormone.

whatever shall the ghost answer on that day?

"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."

i don’t read the herald anymore.

for too long my hardship made me believe that ndarara kana mararawo. no, robert,

you did not wake up in the night and hear the cries of a pregnant woman miscarrying because of starvation.

"Why foist this food upon us? We do not want to be choked,

we have enough."

tell me, robert, what shall your answer be when you shall walk the land like any man,

when I, my neighbor, and pamwe chete all of zimbabwe shall seek an answer?

HORMONE OF GREED IN BLOOD!

Robert Mugabe



Torture victim of Mugabe's regime
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AFRICAN FILMS ONLINE!!!


Ok, so youtube made it easier to share African music and videos. There's also more resources online such as AfroVision.
Check it out and you won't regret it!

ANOTHER BIG AFRICAN FILM

Giving. Is the act of giving good or baneful? Is it the act itself or the ideas behind it, the dependance it breeds? What about all the aid Africa is receiving from outside? Does it do more harm or good? Hold that thought.


You've seen Hotel Rwanda, Catch A Fire, Blood Diamond....and another African movie similar to these three is out. It's called BAMAKO and addresses just the issue of how responsible the WTO and IMF are responsible for Africa's economic quagmire... click on hypertext and check it out.


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