Returned from the heart-shaped continent, clocking time, Africans with PhDs taxi forth.* Those who have crossed and live, look back, let go traditions for the modern grab. Their ‘Africa-Independent’ is overrun; its cities spiked with poverty, rotten profiteers, jobless youth, the reek of rhetoric… Banks’ corrupted leaders who front what’s rank. Neither here […]
I hate to see that evening Sun bite down/
one ruler for another
“There are people who ignore Zambia’s plight. And there are people who try to take advantage of the situation.”
From Washington, DC to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, for an agricultural development conference, held at the Golden Horse Casino Hotel, May, 2007.
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