Poetry
Ngeli ya Ju-Kwa!
Swahili poetry
Thursday began with a two hour session of Swahili poetry with Ahmed Nassir, Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany, Amira S. Msellem, Mahmoud Mau and Abdilatif Abdalla.
Appreciation of poetry and perhaps, of the classical form of Swahili poetry in particular, depends on the mindset of the listener. You must appreciate the Swahili culture to appreciate the classical [...]
Jukwaani! Festival for performance literature
href=”http://www.goethe.de/ins/ke/nai/prj/juk/enindex.htm”>Jukwaani! is a festival of performance literature running from Thursday, 17th September, 2009 to Sunday, 20th September 2009 at the Goethe-Institut.
Jukwaani! Is a project by Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française in association with the Kenya Cultural Center. It is a joint initiative supported by the special fund for cultural projects established by the Ministries of [...]
Machine gun
Give me my machine gun
Let me fight the war
Don’t waste my time now
It’s a perfect time to score
A perfect time to hear those engines roar.
Give me my machine gun
Feel my passion burn
When will you learn??
There’s a war out there,
Still debating if you should load your gun?
Are you for real son?
I’m ready
No need to call steady.
Let’s [...]
Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia
Inspired by Rafiki Kenya
(just some random names. No relation..)
I’d love to get a kibaki doll.
That comes with a manual of how to rig a poll.
I’d love to get a little stuffed raila
That I can gag and then tie to a pillar.
The things i’d do to a stuffed murungaru
Like pinch or lynch or perhaps hurl a [...]
