thanks Jabulani, I understand the long disfluence...

2011-12-14T16:28:09.847Z

thanks Jabulani,

I understand the long disfluence, I admit I may be engaging in a bit of sideways thinking here; DM will always be the tongue of lightning that sets fire to both the dry grass and the green grass.

Cheers

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well said indeed. new and usef...

2011-12-11T16:51:00.053Z

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well said indeed. new and useful insights.

I suppose one has to think of how the personalitie...

2011-11-24T15:22:17.402Z

I suppose one has to think of how the personalities of poets/artists etc filter into their work. Most poets write with a mask on, and that is crucial since it permits one to maintain some distance between the poet and his/her body of work.

But every now and then one comes across poets like Marechera, Okigbo, etc, who bring some of their personal baggage into their work, and that tends to make other poets around them quite uncomfortable; and they are thought of as destabilising, or some such other adjective. Africa has always been a continent of conformities.

I mean when Marechera writes lines like:

Here comes one who in silence
Howled a thousand torments
One who behind polite phrases
Screamed terrible curses to the sky;

he is on the one hand telling you that the world is not all that safe place just because one might wish it to be so. He also removes his mask and lets you into what may be some of his own private pain.

The irony is that only when they are gone; and therefore safely beyond reach does their work become a sort of yard stick by which every other poet of their generation/country/region etc is measured; sometimes unfairly for the rest. Yet it is the same society that produced them all; but these few pay a higher price. May he always rest in peace.

Cheers

Comments on One Ghana, One Voice: Dambudzo - Jabulani Mzinyathi

thanks Jabulani, I understand the long disfluence...

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well said indeed. new and usef...

I suppose one has to think of how the personalitie...