Afro-Optimism

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As Africans we need to start looking within for solutions and stop doubting our existence and perspective. Our spirituality did not arise through contact with foreigners but arose from our deeper consciousness!

knox mahlaba
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Afro Thought

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Truth came to market and could not be sold,

we buy lies with ready cash.

African Proverb~Yoruba

cried within my soul

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Hunted, captured
Shipped, imprisoned, exiled
Enslaved, colonised, tortured
Indoctrinated, miseducated
Endured, persevered
Africa born within me
Emancipated…

Excerpt from Back From The Dead: The Rising of an African Spirit

Copyright © knox mahlaba 2014
Author – Back From The Dead: The Rising of an African Spirit

kilimanjaro

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A snow-capped mountain on the Equator
Standing apart, standing alone
Africa’s greatest mountain
Created by quiet rumblings from beneath
The Rift Valley scarring the surface
Shaping the landscape
The fractures below invisible
The divisions above clear
A people divided
Apportioned by foreign forces
The people apportioning blame…

an excerpt from Kilimanjaro,
a poem in Back From The Dead: The Rising of an African Spirit
Copyright © knox mahlaba 2014
Author of  Back From The Dead: The Rising of an African Spirit