tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27010991415359425972024-02-20T09:19:53.645-08:00BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS 2015mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-78196708768288072562016-09-05T03:03:00.000-07:002016-09-05T03:03:20.617-07:00CALL FOR POEMS: BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS 2016 ANTHOLOGY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2016 ANTHOLOGY <br />
We are calling for
BEST 1-3 poems per poet from Africa (living in Africa) or of African
diasporas (one of the parents originated from Africa) to be included in
BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2016 ANTHOLOGY. Poems of any topic,
form…preferably less than 40 lines but we will read and consider longer
poems, must be in any African indigenous language plus French, English,
and Portuguese. Those in local African indigenous languages should be
accompanied by a translation into French, English or Portuguese. <br />
Deadline for entries is 15 October, 2016<br />
“New” maybe newness of form or newness to the genre…, preference will
be given to younger poets to help them grow as poets but we are open to
older mature poets<br />
Entries should be in one doc, include also
your contact information, country of stay or country of origin and a bio
note of not more than 50 words<br />
<br />
Unfortunately due to financial constraints we won’t be offering
contributors free copies but poets will benefit immensely from this
exposure.<br />
Entries should be sent to Tendai Mwanaka, Daniel Purificacao, Beto Saica on these emails:<br /> mwanaka@yahoo.com, danieljose26@yahoo.com.br, betosaica@yahoo.fr</div>
mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-61116310115891952582016-06-28T05:00:00.000-07:002016-06-28T05:01:26.819-07:00INDEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES week of 27 June 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">an interview with Zimbabwean poet Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell
us about yourself</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First and foremost, I’m an avid reader
of contemporary literature especially literature written by Africans or
anything written about Africans or simply anything written about black people.
It doesn’t matter who wrote it, but as long as it is literature that focuses on
the narratives of African people, then I’m ready to gnaw my way into it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Secondly, I’m a poet who started writing
poetry by accident many, many years ago and never thought it would be
appreciated by poetry lovers out there. And when I say many years ago, I mean
some time in 1989. One day I was invigilating an examination paper and then
this line popped into my mind: The Bible is buyable dah, dah, dah. Every time I
repeated this line, I heard the rhythm in it and voila, my love for verse was born!
Today I’ve over 70 poems appearing on my pages on writerslounge.net. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thirdly, I’m also a prose writer who has
written several short stories and novels with very little seeing publication
until a few years ago when the internet allowed people like ‘us’ to write and
post there. Some of my work was read on BBC Network Africa; my short story, ‘Garden
of Agony’, was published in an anthology entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghost Eater and Other Stories</i>; another one, ‘The Class’, was
published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moxy Campus</i>, a University
of the Western Cape Digital Cultures Class project. My recent triumph is when
the opening chapters of my yet-to-be-published novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Are Not Alone</i>, were published as a short story in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Contrast: Manifesto</i>, South Africa’s
oldest literary magazine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m also into stage acting after I was
invited to appear in a play entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De
Waarheidscommissie 1913-2013 </i>(The Truth Commission 1913-2013) by a visiting
Dutch theatre group called Action Zoo Humain. The play was written by
ElsOpsomer and is a fierce condemnation of the infamous Ghent World Exposition
of 1913. I heard the play was screened on Cape Town TV. It was filmed at UWC
but because I don’t watch TV I never bothered to find out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, there that’s who I am in a nutshell.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
inspires you to create, what traditions in your country or outside that have
inspired your creativity.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People and silence. People living in
those parts of the world that I’ve so far traversed have had a great influence
on what I write and how I write. First of all, I consider the world as a human
zoo and I’m the tourist who is visiting there. The behaviour of human beings –
how they interact, their actions, their trials and tribulations, their joy,
their sadness – has been my source of inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Silence has played a great role in my
writing career. Although my other name is Voice, and this must suggest one who
speaks a lot, but that is a misnomer because it is in my silence that most of
my writing was born. I like listening more than speaking because I believe ears
will never get me into trouble but my mouth can. I listen to people speaking in
buses, trains, at work, at the wells or in drinking spaces – wherever I go! –
and I ‘poach’ their narratives and then from them and recreate my creative
creations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The literary culture in my country,
Zimbabwe, died with the unprecedented death of a literary organisation going by
the title: The Literature Bureau. This organisation published accessible and
successful Shona novels such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nzvengamutsvairo</i>
by Bernard Chidzero, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TambaogaMwanangu</i>
by Giles Kuimba – just to name a few. It also had an itinerant programme which
took books around the countryside informing rural folk like us about what the
country was reading and who was writing what was being read. And now this is
not happening anymore. Thus, I think The Literature Bureau deserves a grave at
the National Heroes Acres.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell
us about the poetry scene in your country & your books or work so far</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Beside the few ‘connected’ writers and
poets who have been published or are still getting published, not much literary
ripples are coming out of Zimbabwe. Nowadays, with the advent of the cancerous
corruption it is the ‘connected’ who get published. I struggled a lot trying to
break into the published world back in my country. I’ve written a number of
Shona and English novels that have died a still-birth while I was there. The
culture of reading has also declined to such an extent that it has strangled
the book industry – and that does not mean I’m writing for monetary gains. No!
I just like mirroring people’s lived experiences for them to see how many
shards of their Hunhuism/Ubuntu remain. Furthermore, most people don’t have the
money to splash around buying books in my country these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From where I am I can see my work as resurrecting
from the dead. I have people willing to listen to silence, people with an ear
for my story, people willing to publish my work and people who appreciate a
piece of art and find glory in it. I’ve been writing a lot. I completed writing
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Are Not Alone</i> and I’m looking for
a publisher for that novel. I think it’s a great story because it dwells on
some of the ills of the society that have been exacerbated by the advent of HIV
and AIDS as well as political bickering in Zimbabwe. Like I’ve already said,
its opening chapters appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
Contrast: Manifesto</i> (Volume 44, Number 1. Autumn 2016) as ‘Voices of the
Ancestors’.</span></div>
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sets you apart from other poets writing now?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s a rather tricky question because
as far as I’m concerned poets will never be the same. Our life experiences and
the socio-economic environments in which we grew up differ greatly and have a
bearing on what we write about. To address the question directly, I would say
that, for me it could be because I’m a man who likes to write about women. Many
times I’ve my protagonists as females. This could stem from the fact that my
mother played an important role in my upbringing. In the early 60s and the 70s,
when my father was doing rounds in the country’s prisons because of his
political views, it was my mother who looked after us. She worked on farms making
bricks in order to raise school fees for us and that was a monumental feat for
a young woman to do during those days. I believe writing about women is a
tribute to her and all the other women who love their children to that extent. Thus
my poetry and prose literature tend to hinge on feminism most of the time.</span></div>
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else do you do or like doing other than poetry?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I love road running. Actually the poem
‘My Heart Packed a Suitcase’ was composed while I was running a 21.1km race in
Wellington (Western Cape, South Africa). To me road running is as good a
challenge as writing is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the moment I’m translating into
English one of my Shona manuscripts that I penned in 1995. I feel that the
story has relevance to what is happening today in my country and I’ve had to
translate it into another language because of the reluctance of publishers in
my country to see it as worthy to get out to the readers. In between I’m also
churning out verses and helping young people to realise their creative side of
themselves. </span></div>
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you were to be elected the president of your country, tell us what you would
really like to see happening, what you would achieve on and how.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Freedom of speech and association, my
brother. Without different voices contributing to the country’s narratives
development comes to a standstill. Period.</span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell
us about your poem(s) in BNAP</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve two poems that have been featured
in BNAP. These are: ‘The Passage’ and ‘My Heart Packed a Suitcase’. ‘The
Passage’ is a poem which I composed while I was waiting for the traffic lights
to turn green at a road intersection in Cape Town. As we sat in our cars
waiting, an old lady from a nearby old people’s home needed to cross the road
but because she was using a walker it took her time to cross the road and we
had to wait for her to so. I didn’t think it could make the grade until I
submitted it for my MA assessment. My supervisor gave it an A grade and I felt
good about it. It has also been reprinted by Wordgathering Poetry, an
organisation that promotes poetry for and by people with disability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘My Heart Packed a Suitcase’ is a
protest poem that was inspired by service delivery protests in black townships
in South Africa. Visuals on TV and in newspapers played an important role here.
While political leaders revel in their triumphant marches to parliament after
being swept to power by the poor ‘povo’ votes, they forget their promises until
the next elections. The poem is an indictment of these leaders who are not only
confined to South Africa but to the whole continent at large.</span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
areas do you want future BNAP anthologies to address?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My suggestion is that future BNAP
anthologies should set themes that contributing poets should address in their
compositions. I believe this will help streamline anthologies according to
themes. Therefore, readers seeking to understand particular poetic themes will
be able to find them in one volume. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Themes such as war, migration, tradition, etc.
could be set. I also think that the publishers must also be in a position to
give each contributing poet a hard copy of the published anthologies. When I
tell my children that I’ve been published in an anthology they ask me: where is
your contributor’s copy? And when there’s nothing to show them they do not
believe me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I thank you.</span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-50130014929635867762016-05-27T04:01:00.001-07:002016-05-28T03:23:31.517-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 23 May 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Woman issues series, </span></b></span></b><b style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">BNAP</span></b><b style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b>Interviews Claudia Cassoma, the Angolan poet </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was born in one
of the most beautiful countries in the world, Angola, in it’s capital city,
Luanda, and I am the second of six children.
I’m constantly in the pursuit of a higher education and while in my
praiseworthy journey I invest time in social work believing that the volunteer
help those in need, contributing to a more just and united world. I have been
passionate about writing from early age. I’ve explored different literary
genres, but I must say that, for now, I’m mostly recognized for my poetry. I
had my first book published in January of 2013 and since then I’ve celebrated
several achievements in the literary world. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Inspiration is not a constant; on the contrary,
it’s ever changing. So whether it’s something I experienced, something I saw,
heard, or even something I imagined, anything can inspire me. Life inspires me!
The world I envisioned inspires me, so I go and I create it. On the other hand,
that feeling that I can give someone a voice drives me deeply. It’s
gratifying! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3. As a woman writer what areas in
writing/publishing you think needs a lot more to be done toward changing them,
and what do you propose?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Although I’ve
been writing for almost fifteen years, I’m just now entering the publishing
world. And without separating the genders, I believe that it’s less arduous for
the already renowned writers. You can be a good writer but when you try to
create your own platform it’s when it
gets wearing. Particularly in the </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Angolan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> market, according to my own
experience, it’s ridiculously difficult. I’ve had experiences with </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">European</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> and
american publishers as well and things weren’t as thorny. In those, I found
that it’s really about your talent, so
as long as you prove originality you have a spot, and that’s what’s in fault in
some areas. </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">4. This week is Mother’s week, what
did you do for your mother or the mother in you?</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
It’s funny because, now, no
matter the occasion, my family expects a message from me, poetry or not. So I
did that. I wrote a new poem for my mom.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">5. Give us your take on feminism,
womanism…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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misconception around this subject. Anyone can be an advocate of women's rights
on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. The more the
merrier! I agree that it is somewhat complex because we have to consider both
genders equal yet different and find a common ground, so that’s the challenge.
I do believe that we, woman, still have some miles to go in order to reach that
equilibrium.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">6. What else do you do or like doing?</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
So, besides writing and
volunteering, I like watching TV on my down time, going to the movies and just
spending time with friends. I love some
quite too; just lay and listen to music.
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">7. What kind of music are you now
listening to?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Interesting
question. It just so happens that today I find myself listening to a lot of
underground hip hop. I found that there’s just so much poetry in them that I
can’t help but listen to one after the other. I proudly listen to the music
made in Angola, Kizomba, Semba, RAP happens to be my favorite right now. And
I’ve always liked R&B/Soul, so I listen to that too. I guess what I am
trying to say is that I have ears for all kinds of music, it just depends on my
mood. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">8. Tell us about your poem(s) in BNAP.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s start with the </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">English</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> one. I sent “Panties
& Pots” mainly because of the reaction people had when I first recited it.
It was an interesting circle, with people from different places, ages and
gender, and to see the different ways they interpreted really inspired me. So
when I got informed about this contest I just thought that it would be a great
opportunity to talk about the issues addressed in the poem. I didn’t know
people would take it so personally, but they did and I couldn’t be happier. We
are in an era where the discussion is about what women were and what they are
today, and what it all means. The poem is about this woman that just had an
epiphany and finally understands the way she was raised and how that explains
the way she lives now as a woman. What I love about the poem is that no matter
the position anyone takes everyone has an opinion and they are talking about
it. </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> So I suggest that everybody acquires
the book and read to understand exactly what I’m talking about. It’s on amazon,
by that way here </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">http://www.amazon.com/Best-African-Poets-2015-Anthology/dp/9956763489</span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My second favorite
poem is <i>Eu vou voltar</i> (<i>I’ll go back), </i>which talks about my love for my country,
and how I feel about being away from everything and everyone, and just the </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">eagerness of
going back one day. The third one is a love poem, also expressing a woman’s
feeling. Overall I am just honored to have these three poems on this wonderful,
different and well-made anthology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">9. What areas do you want future BNAP
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> I
can’t think of many changes you need to undergo; however, as Achieng’ Emily discussed on her interview I
think it would be interesting to see poems in other (</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">African</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">) languages. But
just so a bigger number of people have the opportunity to read and hear our
voices, I suggest a translation side-by-side. I think there’s a number of ways
it can done. Otherwise, it’s amazing what you guys are doing. Keep it going!</span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-50107644526525337652016-05-18T18:32:00.000-07:002016-05-18T18:32:34.294-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES, Week of 16 May 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>A woman of few words, Achieng’ Emily deeply
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I
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place of simplicity. And this dispels the silence in me, through writing.</div>
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you to creat</b><b>e?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The
scary thought that if I do not create, I might lose the idea and someone else
picks it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>As a
woman writer what areas in writing/publishing you think needs a lot more to be
done toward changing them, and what do
you propose</b><b>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I feel
we need to give way to more female voices that leap off the page a little bit
more. Voices that make life complete. Unapologetic voices that surprise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>This week
is Mother’s week, what did you for your mother or the mother in you</b><b>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Being
away from home made me take lots of quiet thoughtful moments throughout the day
to appreciate her. And I suddenly felt real compassion surge through me. The
effect was great. A world without women would have brought us all to a strange
existence.</div>
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us your take on feminism, womanism…<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I
feel invisibility is something that has been quite hard to escape. Even
powerful women with names experience it.
I just want a world where we can step out of this locked set of mind.</div>
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else do you do or like doin</b><b>g?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I
love walking to scatter my thoughts and feel a sense of renewal. If I am
stationed in one area for a long time, I feel the need to walk or my head will
just explode.<o:p></o:p></div>
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kind of music are now listening to</b><b>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I don’t
have a specific. I get new discoveries every single day.</div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Tell
us about your poem(s) in BNAP<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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My
poems were born from that needy feeling of trying to justify my absurdity. The
enthusiasm and energy of finding a balance even in imperfection.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwplL8PvtpwCtJW2TA7Xnwr_7twdkkMMJ7GvyDkgAfrvtBY0qw67G5oDR96OY537OP9CwSs-aj5p9emQ-6h4Kzxsezg2eV6TqNrK_Khj4ryh8ala9wjQfKOOyizTZ5Y4jKp4w7reI03rE/s1600/BNAP.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwplL8PvtpwCtJW2TA7Xnwr_7twdkkMMJ7GvyDkgAfrvtBY0qw67G5oDR96OY537OP9CwSs-aj5p9emQ-6h4Kzxsezg2eV6TqNrK_Khj4ryh8ala9wjQfKOOyizTZ5Y4jKp4w7reI03rE/s320/BNAP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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areas do you want future BNAP anthologies to address</b><b>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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African
Languages.</div>
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http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/best-new-african-poets-2015-anthology</div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-53847112279897630992016-05-09T00:35:00.000-07:002016-05-09T00:47:17.223-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 9 May 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #4c1130; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1.Tell us about yourself:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My name is Ojonugwa John Attah. I am a</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nigerian poet and short story writer. I also write
football reviews</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">and compose text
messages. I teach English Language and literature. I</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">have a poem in the Best New African Poets Anthology
and I have been</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">published on notable
literary platforms in Nigeria, Uganda, The USA</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">amongst others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2.Tell us about the poetry scene in your
country:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry is a large</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">genre in my
country. These days, people get involved unlike in the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">past when only those involved were the poets and those
who loved</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">poetry events. The promotion of
poetry is something that has been done</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">gradually
since many persons in the past believed only prose was the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">thing and if you weren't writing prose, you were never
read. Right</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">now, poetry is gaining ground
with the number of poetry festivals,</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">poetry
workshops, award ceremonies and seminars organized for children</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">and adults alike. The spoken word is also gaining
ground as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">3.What influences your creativity?: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My creativity is influenced by</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">a lot
of things. One of them is nature. Whenever I see trees, the sun,</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the moon, animals, the birds and feel the general
movement of nature,</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I pick up something.
These days, I take photographs of nature with my</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">phone until I get a camera as a birthday gift! Secondly, people,</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">situations and events influence my creativity.
There is a part on</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">social media and then
there is a daily interaction with the tea man</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">somewhere, the tout on the road, the tomato seller and all others.</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This is why I love meeting people and
experiencing several situations</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">which are
likely to develop the innate part of me that tends to keep</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">those experiences for future use. Another influencing
factor on my</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">creativity is music. It just
does not matter the genre. Sometimes, it</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">depends
on what I am doing or on what I am thinking about. The music</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">could be hip hop, blues, jazz, gospel, reggae or pop.
It depends on</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">what I listen to at a
moment or what I am doing at the moment.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sometimes,
I love it quiet or alone to help me think more to create.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4.How do you get around life and your creativity, how do you
achieve</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">balance between these, living and creativity?:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Combining life and</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">creativity
can be so interesting. One thing that improves my</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">creativity is my daily interaction with all that life
consists of. It</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">is not good enough to
disengage both from each other and feel alright.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Life goes with creativity and that is what I feel. One thing for me is</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to live my life daily interacting with those I
meet and with the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">animals or things I encounter
and to an extent, bring them into my</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">writing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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poetry-making in the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">continent and how do
you think we can solve this?:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I will choose to</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">speak about
the problem of poetry-making in the African continent</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">because it is very important. Prose and drama took
early centre stage</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">in and around the
continent. Poetry was initially seen by many as a</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">genre filled with complexities in language, imageries
and all. Many</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">refused to dedicate their
time to interpreting in their own words, the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">content of poems they come across. This withdrawal led to a lot more</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">problems. Although the continent keeps rising in
this area, a lot still</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">needs to be done.
One problem I feel needs to be addressed is that of</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">an early contact with poetry from childhood for many
school children.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">At the primary or basic
level, nursery rhymes like "Twinkle, twinkle</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">little star" and "Old Roger" could be
taught before other poems from</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">poets
around the continent and beyond are taught at intermediate and</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">tertiary education levels. At that point, the learners
would have</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">encountered the poems and
works of old poets like William Shakespeare,</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Ralph Waldo</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Emerson, PB Shelley and co while kicking on with
modern poets like</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chimalum Nwankwo,
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Shittu Fowora, Jumoke</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Verissimo, Damian Opata, Daniel Chikwuemeka, Chuma Mmeka, Ejiofor Ugwu</span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">and the numerous poets brought to the limelight
through the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">publication of various
anthologies of poetry in and around the world.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">If we begin from the grassroots, poetry will become more than a</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">national or continental genre and not be limited to
only those who</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">read, write or critique
it. This is the type of transformation the</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">continent
needs. Poets are as well not properly recognized, promoted</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">and awarded. This has to change but we must start somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I love football. Although I am a Chelsea
fan, I love football without borders. I prefer people discussing or arguing
about football with some bit of sense and not negativity, taking in the truth
no matter how painful and learning further by listening to the opinion of
others whether favourable or not. I also love volleyball and basketball but I
love watching and playing football more!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> I have a solitary poem in BNAP. It is titled
"I Have Been Watching You." The poem is written from the point of
view of a young man whose lover has done something terrible and wants to own up
but remains silent. This silence makes the poetic persona to speak in these
words to his lover: "I have been watching you/I know you want to say something/But
you don't want to or are afraid to do so.." The lover concludes by saying
"But I will keep watching you!" It is a poem I love and for it to
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anthology is an achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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editions, marketing, editorial etc?:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">First of, I would like to register
my gratitude to Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Daniel da Purificação for the
consistent efforts in searching for good poets as well as good poems from the
continent and beyond and creating a melting pot out of our varied creativity in
all its forms and themes. There were challenges no doubt but the successes recorded
thus far have been amazing. Although there are successes all around, there are places
the anthology can still improve. One of them is in the area of promotion both
of the BNAP anthology and the contributing poets. As I speak, a lot of the
contributors in certain parts of the continent are yet to hold the anthology in
their hands which should have been before other readers and reviewers did. The
marketing as well needs to be improved upon. Besides Amazon, if there are other
retail outlets, there should be co-opted into the distribution of the
anthology. If possible as well, let there be publishers in at least four to
five African countries so that the production and marketing stress will reduce
and the anthology get to the contributors and other readers in time. All the
best to all the contributing poets for the future. I am happy to have featured
in this wonderful anthology!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-26772328823603587332016-05-03T03:57:00.000-07:002016-05-03T03:57:48.520-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 2 May 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kariuki wa Nyamu aka Nyamu KJ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My name is Kariuki wa
Nyamu aka Nyamu KJ. I am a poet, radio playwright and editor who hails from
Mwea, Central Kenya. I am also a high school teacher of English and Literature. I am glad to have been irrigated
academically in two countries; Kenya and Uganda. I am a Makerere
University graduate with honours in English, Literature and Education. I have
won creative writing competitions at school, university and national level. My
poetry is published in several best selling anthologies. Apart from poetry and
radio plays, I also write film scripts, short stories, satirical pieces as well
as Children’s tales. I am also a skilled verse and public speaking coach, film
enthusiast and music lover. Above all, I am a practicing Christian and son of
an evangelist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell us about the poetry scene in your country…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For a long time, Kenya has
had many renowned poets who have been anthologized in myriad Africa’s bestselling
poetry books. This informs us that poetry writing in Kenya has been vibrant. However,
in contemporary Kenyan poetry scene, page poets have apparently been overshadowed
by spoken word poets. In fact, the vivacious performances by spoken word poets are
sought after thus very trendy especially among the youth. Nevertheless, page poets
are still relevant in contemporary Kenyan society although the rate of
publication of poetry books is considerably low as compared to other Literature
genres like novels, plays and short stories. There are also innumerable poetry
forums and events which feature both page and spoken word poets hence offering
them exposure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What influences your creativity? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I spent my formative years
in the countryside before we moved to town. The former environment is certainly
favorable for creative writing due to its serenity. I also grew up in a very
creative environment where our grandmother could routinely tell us stories. The
tradition of storytelling which she instilled in me has had a lasting literary impact
in my life as a creative writer and poet. My mother is also a proficient
storyteller and singer. She inspires me a lot. I must say that my creativity has
also been influenced by accessibility of novellas, novels, plays, poetry books,
right from primary school. I used to read one novella after another, something
that significantly improved my creative writing skills. Besides, our teachers
could also engage us in outdoor storytelling sessions especially in hot
afternoons. This led to constant writing of imaginative compositions that largely
impressed my teachers, classmates and family. So, you can see my creative
writing skills have a long history. In my high school days, I immensely enjoyed
reading, analyzing and writing poems, something that boosted my creativity. Studying
Literature at both Advanced and university level in Uganda also influenced my
creativity due to more exposure to world’s Literature. I also love traveling,
especially long journeys, and this significantly influences my creativity a great
deal in that I conceive great ideas that later turn into poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, I must say that my
creativity helps me to live a rewarding life. My pains are turned into gains
while my pressures are turned into pleasures. Besides, I always relate well with
creative people who inspire me a great deal. Still, engaging in lively
interactions and intelligent talks with my family, friends, colleagues and students
also boosts my creativity. So I have never erected fences to separate my life
from creativity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you feel is lacking in writing, or poetry
making in the continent and how do you think we can solve this?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It deeply pains me when I
realize that mentorship in the field of poetry is still deficient. Few renowned
poets of African descent, whether living in Africa or in the diaspora, have bothered
to nurture budding poets. I can affirm that there are countless undiscovered
poets in the villages, towns and cities who have no idea that they are sitting
on their poetic writing potential. Can you imagine it took me two decades for
society to realize that a poet was born? Well, I all along knew that there is
great poetic writing potential in me but I lacked mentorship until I moved to
Uganda for my Advanced Level Education. This mentorship continued when I
proceeded to Makerere University for my undergraduate degree. That aside, I am
greatly indebted to associations such as NABOTU, FEMRITE, African Writers’
Trust and Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation for offering me steadfast mentorship.
Allow me to also appreciate the efforts of my teachers and lecturers at St.
Lawrence Creamland Campus and Makerere University respectively for the
unwavering inspiration and mentorship. Having said that, I would like to urge all
accomplished African poets to nurture especially the budding poets by holding
training and mentorship workshops as well as helping them to get published.
With this, African poetry will grow immensely.
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and why?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I would have wished to be
a love poem because I believe in Love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I love athletics a lot. I
also get pleasure from walking fast, whether alone or with company. Basically,
this boosts my creativity since I conceive grand ideas that I later use to
craft my poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anthology…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I conceived the first poem,
“The Extraordinary Love Poem,” in one of my senior Literature classes; as I was
explaining to my students the meaning of each mentioned stylistic device. If
you interact with it closely, you will realize that the persona mentions
stylistic devices and artistically relates them with the love experience while
illuminating what each is. Frankly speaking, this poem is very close to my
heart. The second poem “Palaver” explores modern African societies which are
for the most part in ruins. The third poem “Love’s Art and Love-craft” superbly
uses form, structure and language to tell the story of uncertainties of love.
Basically, since their publication, I have greatly enjoyed enormous literary
exposure. I convey my gratification to the editors of BNAP Anthology for their munificent
efforts of editing and publishing this book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you think can be done to improve BNAP
anthology, in the future editions; marketing, editorial etc?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I humbly propose the idea
of holding regional book launches of the future editions which will further
inform the public about the poetry book, so that we can have West African, Northern
Africa, Southern Africa and East African book launches held in major cities of
the respective regions of the continent. This will market the book extensively
as well as acting as a platform of inspiring young and upcoming poets into
writing. The editors can also consider involving poets from the respective
regions in a programme that aims to nurture young talents especially high
school and university students. Trust me, there is great talent there. Another
thing that needs improvement concerns distribution of the book in major cities
of the continent and out of Africa, that is, if funds allow, since in this edition,
the distribution has been limited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-8266300344436989902016-04-22T12:32:00.002-07:002016-04-22T12:34:54.632-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 18 April 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><u>An interview with Anthony Osei</u></i></b></div>
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<b><i><u>Tell us about yourself<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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My Name is Anthony Akoto Osei Jr. I am a 1<sup>st</sup>
Generation Ghanaian-American, the 1<sup>st</sup> born son of two Ghanaian
Immigrants who came to America to complete their Tertiary educations. As a Health Science specialist I have had the
honor of working for and with the Veteran Affairs Medical Centers in Cleveland,
Ohio and Oakland, CA. It was working with Veterans in aiding them to find
healthier ways to deal with Stress, OTSD and depression that I was able to make
us of the Poetic writing schools I picked up in High school and thought I would
discard upon deciding to pursue Public Health and Clinical Research. Currently I am blessed to live in Alameda, CA
with my fiancee’ Claudette Davis and our two pet-children 7 year old Gucci Osei
and 2 year old Pabou. </div>
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Modern Poetry in Ghana has made a significant boost in
popularity over the last couple of years, but there are not too many
internationally acclaimed Ghanaian poets that most people know. Instead, Ghana
as a cultural melting pot is known for Folk stories and art written in the
native dialects of “Twi” and Ga which typically speak of a Love for Nature, GOD
and fellow Human Beings.</div>
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<b><i><u>What influences your creativity? <o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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Having had the opportunity to travel to many different
countries, my artwork is fueled by my own personal experiences dealing with
Life and Loss as well as the interactions I have been able to make with many
many people from vastly different cultures. My poetry is influenced by a desire
to communicate within a word where it is difficult for even LOVERS to
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I do not see Living and Creativity as separate. To me, the
process of creation requires one to actually live AND experience simultaneously.
It demands of us Truthfulness in the interpretation of the things and
occurrences we say on a daily basis and how those experiences shape our very
minds. The artists is one who takes that Influence and turns it into a physical
expression that can be Perceived, Observed and eventually understood through
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People always speak of certain voices missing in the stage
of poetry: not enough people of color, not enough women, not enough men….
Personally I think poetry in the modern age
is lacking Commitment to its broader audience. Most poets, regardless of
who they are only Write to be heard speaking about an issue that is mostly
Personal to them alone. Most poets fail to use their avenue to raise awareness
surrounding issues that do not directly pertain to them or their experiences in
life. This a detriment. Writing about ONLY what you care about limits a Poet in
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<b><i><u>If you were a poem, what type or form will you be in, and why?<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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I would not be confided to a particular form if I were a
poet as the art of writing for me is a form of Escape and Freedom and I would
not want to be stuck within a single form of expertise or ability.</div>
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<b><i><u>What type of sports are you into.<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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I personally engage in Swimming, Running, Track & Field,
Cultural and Urban Dance, Capoeira Angola and Regional, Various forms of
Martial Arts and Yoga. I also enjoy watching Basketball and UEFA Football
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My poems are all about my experiences growing up as a Ghanaian
American within various environments. They are my point of view, interaction
with the world.</div>
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benefit BNAP in the future. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-87627022096132337512016-04-05T08:26:00.000-07:002016-04-05T08:26:17.746-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 3 April 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whenever I am being,
respectively, asked this question, my answer reveals itself this way. I am a
simple farmer, poet, and writer. This humble answer summarizes a great deal of
the poet's life, as it also sheds light upon who Fayssal Chafaki, the Poet of
the Kingdom of Morocco, is. I am a farmer because this is what I have chosen to
be. I am a poet because this is my nature, my inner self, and the reason of my
existence. I am a writer because my modest academic background has granted me,
alongside the composition of poetry since childhood, the ability to write prose
in terms of short stories, articles, novel-attempts, books, and research papers
related to the study of Phonology. (My writings in prose are only in English.)
Fayssal Chafaki, in a sum of words, is a Moroccan Arab poet, whose poetic style
still preserves the norms and conventions of Classical Poetry, both in Arabic
and English, in form and content, but delivers conventionally and conveys
faithfully a modern and contemporary message to a multi-cultural literary
audience. Fayssal Chafaki, the farmer, the poet, and the writer, lives now in
the Western country-side of the Kingdom of Morocco, where he leads a normal
life, yet full of struggle, and where he has devoted himself to revive poetry
and literature which, seemingly, have ceased to play their great and important
role in his country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell us what inspires you to create<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To be frank with you, the
one and only thing that inspires me the most will have to be the last thing I
mention to you. I can almost be inspired by anything that surrounds me. Nature
and the farm come first. Then, the fact of being away from the noises of the
city-life is what constantly pushes me to create. I can also compose under any
circumstances and, above all, when I am faced with stress. When I sense danger,
mainly danger that threatens faith, ethics, my homeland, human-being existence
as a whole, or any kind of danger that may menace all of us, I use my pen. I
compose for war, as I compose for peace. Many of my Arabic and English poems
are triggered either by a global, or social, or political event that
necessitates the interference of poetry. Sometimes I can be inspired by a
simple post on social-media sites, an article I've read, a video I have
watched, a comment that made me happy or upset, a kind message or a provoking
insult, an old poem, a beautiful lady, a flower, a bird, an insect, an idea,
simple or complex, a piece of art, a constellation of the stars, the raising
sun, the moon and the clouds, the rain and the winds, the movement of the
seasons, calm and solitude, my adorable spouse, my beloved little daughter, my
dear mother, and even a friend or a person who may request a certain poem for
him or her. At the end, the one and only thing that inspires me the most, and
which I always consider the source and power of my Arabic and English poems, is
the Holy Qur'an. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Above being a poet you are also a farmer and
academic, tell us how you balance these three<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have mentioned the fact
of combining between poetry, writing, and farming into one of my Arabic poems
stating that <b>“By day, my work, a hoe in my hand; and when night comes, it is
my pen.”</b>In truth, farming has never appeared to hinder me from composing my poems, reading, writing, or
conducting research. The farm is not that big enough, so the work there is
easily planned and done. Usually my work in the farm starts early in the
morning and ends with sunset. After the kids go to bed I isolate myself in a
room and begin either to compose a poem, or read, or deal with my writings. I
always find the appropriate moment to be in the company of books, papers, and
pen. I also find time, occasionally, to be on-line and post some of my poems.
Conducting academic research as a farmer and a poet, though demanding, is given
a share of my time, and has never been a heavy task for me. Mainly my academic
research is conducted independently after facing major obstacles from some
university professors. The main focus of my research papers evolves around the
study of sounds in Arabic and Old languages. The life of a farmer is very
simple, and so the life of a poet, or a writer. To balance between these three,
I always feel the need to exert mental effort beside physical one. You may not
recognize me as a poet and a humble educated person when I am wearing my boots
and plowing the land for crops, but when I compose and write you will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crops you grow or animals you keep etc<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The farm, as I mentioned
above, is not that big enough, a four acres land, situated in a plain zone in
the West of the Kingdom of Morocco. The main agriculture we deal with is
seasonal. We grow wheat, corn, beans, carrots, onions, clover, and different
types of vegetables in a system of rotation. In the past ten years and more, we
used to find difficulties with irrigation. In the present day we have been able
to set a small system of drip irrigation that really saves time and effort. As
to animals we keep, for the time being there is only some chicken and few
sheep, as we witnessed a period of drought and lack of cattle feed. During this
actual season, we are planting yellow melon. We are also planning to innovate
our small farming agriculture techniques and methods. The whole work in the
farm is done and managed by my brother and I, and our two small families. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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literary scene, both performance and written</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Very recently, the Moroccan
Prime Minister announced that the Kingdom in the future will not be in need of
poets, writers, philosophers, and Men of Letters, but rather will be in need of
people who produce wealth. This is encouraging and dis-encouraging at the same
time. Encouraging in the sense that poets in the Kingdom of Morocco will have
to be more creative than they may happen to be, and of course dis-encouraging
in the sense that poetry and literature are endangered in my country. This
leads us to tackle the issue of Moroccan poetry and the literary scene in
brief. Moroccan poetry possesses a rich poetic and literary heritage. Poets of
the twentieth century like Al Halwi, Al Balghiti, and Bin Brahim will always be
the same great modern poetry figures who have lit the path for many other
poets. Today, unfortunately, there is very few poets like these great ones, if
not even a single one. The reason lies behind the fact that great poets like Al
Halwi, Al Balghiti, and Bin Brahim belong to the Arabic Prosodic Poetry school,
also called Classical Poetry. After these poets and their likes have gone,
Free-verse “poets” have taken the literary scene for a period of three to four
decades with the claim that Moroccan Arabic Classical Poetry is not fit for the
modern world, and, therefore, is dead. As a result to this kind of literary
“conflict” between Free-verse and Classical poetry schools in their Moroccan
Arab context, Moroccan poetry, and Arabic poetry in general, degraded. Poetry
lost huge audiences of ordinary and educated people alike. This made the
literary scene vulnerable to low culture interference, where commercial singing
and dancing festivals, for instance, replaced poetry and literary gatherings.
People's artistic taste in Morocco have deteriorated towards consumable and
ready-made low types of art, leaving poetry and literature into a dark corner
face to face with oblivion. There are of course contemporary Moroccan poets who
also belong to the same prosodic Arabic poetry school but are seldom active in
the literary scene, and if there is any, they do not happen to gather their
efforts and collaborate with each other to bring back poetry on stage. Some
Moroccan poets secure themselves into closed groups and organize their own
events without taking the pain to open their arms to other poets. Some others
are timid. Some are fake. Journalists, critics, university professors, the
Ministry of Culture, and media are also responsible for such grave and dire
situation poetry and literature has reached in the Kingdom of Morocco. Media
platforms and newspapers are for sale. Critics are blocked. University
professors do not care very often. The Ministry of Culture supports everything
but poets' creative work. This is in brief the harsh reality behind the
literary scene in my country. To measure how much does a nation value its
poets, it would be enough to see how many of them are honored by that nation.
My country, I am sorry to say it, values the more all that would help spread
ignorance, not what would enlighten brains. The burden is still upon us, poets,
to bring poetry's fame back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you were to be reborn, what form would
you like to return in<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If I were to be born again,
I would like to return into nothing but the same Servant of Creator, the same
human being, the same simple poet. I would like some change, yes, but a change
in time and probably in space. I would like to return in time when bards used
to be listened to, respected, counseled, and regarded with high esteem. As to
place, it does not matter. Everywhere there is the High Creator, and everywhere
there is Him, we have a chance to be reborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell us about your poem, No Wise Man in BNAP<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Talking about my poem “No
Wise Man”, or any other poem of mine, is always done with some reservation. I
prefer to leave room for readers, critics, audiences, and potential researchers
to study the poem, or poems, without the interference of the poet, fearing that
my opinion, somehow, about the meaning, the structure, or the whole essence of
the poem would be taken for granted and considered as a final judgment. Yet, I
can always talk about the circumstances under which this particular poem has
seen light and the reason behind composing it. “No Wise Man” is a poem about a
very old so-called political conflict in the North of Africa. The poem is one
among a series of English poems defending the Issue of Moroccan Sahara. “No
Wise Man” points to the issue of the Moroccan Sahara and is considered very
critical for the poet. The Moroccan Sahara for him is an issue of existence,
and in his poem “No Wise Man” he provides evidence to support his right. This
poem, and all the other poems that fall under the title of “Defending the
Moroccan Sahara” explain to what extent the poet is related and linked to this
desert part of his homeland. The poem indicates that the Moroccan Sahara is the
poet's mother and place of birth, mentions the poet's origins as connected to
his Moroccan Sahrawi nomad grandfather, and informs the reader smoothly about
the reality and truth of this so-called conflict. The poet in this poem, “No
Wise Man”, refuses to break his historical ties and bonds with his grandfathers
who constantly live in the Moroccan Sahara. The poet respects the past, lives
the present, and looks for a peaceful tomorrow in the region, as reflected in
his poem. What really triggers the poet to compose poems defending the Moroccan
Sahara is that the poet is born six months before this so-called conflict
started. Prior to 1975 there has been no such dispute and no one has claimed
that the Moroccan Sahara is another nation. During that period the whole
Kingdom of Morocco has been suffering from colonization. The North and the
South is colonized by Spain while the rest is colonized by France. French
colonizers have left the country in 1956 and the Spanish have kept the Moroccan
Sahara under their control until later. We have been colonized, and so many African
countries, and still today there are greedy persons who want to divide our
country. The same tribes that live in the Moroccan Sahara are living all around
the Kingdom today. All these reasons above, and many other ones, are behind the
composition of “No Wise Man”. The poem at the end makes it clear that only a
fool will keep fighting for something that does not belong to him or her, and
that the earth will only be owned by the creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continent at large and what improvements do you want to see in the next BNAP</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BNAP is home for me and the
best and unique adobe for African poets. BNAP is a torch of enlightenment the
continent really needs. It has succeeded into bringing African poets together
and presenting them to the world. By this, BNAP has carved a honorable mark in
the field of poetry and literature. BNAP is a new African literary movement
able to carry the universal message of poetry and give Africa a strong voice
among other continents. I will always be happy to see BNAP supporting African
poets and leading them towards success. I certainly hope that future series of
BNAP would welcome more African poets, especially young ones, and would one
day, if possible, include poems in Arabic and Hausa. BNAP is always that heart
that speaks for Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Poet of the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kingdom of Morocco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-58396641289325532102016-03-30T06:08:00.001-07:002016-03-30T06:08:25.985-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 28 March 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">This week BNAP features Angolan poet</span></b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;"> TAGORE RABIN DINURA and Nigerian poet </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kelechi Ezeigwe</span></b><b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">TAGORE RABIN DINURA,
pseudónimo de Dilen Alsungas Pandieira José, nasceu aos 12 de Outubro de 1987,
no Sumbe, em Angola. Nasci nos finais dos anos 8o. Mas ainda criança meus pais
me levaram para capital, Luanda. Na época o país estava em guerra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Angola é minha
paisagem, e o essencial de minha poesia são as coisas simples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Pois ser poeta: “É
descrever o que se sente verdadeiramente, a cada instante da existência.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Não acredito num
sistema poético, numa organização poética. Irei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Mais longe: não creio
nas escolas, nem no Simbolismo, nem no Realismo, nem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">No Surrealismo. Sou
absolutamente desligado dos rótulos que se colocam nos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Produtos. Gosto dos
produtos, não dos rótulos”. Por isso me defino como devorador de livros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;"> Gosto do produto e não do rótulo. Pois me
entrego a fundo a procura dos grandes sentimentos humanos, como o amor, a
amizade e a liberdade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Quero levar a minha
poesia a muitos habitantes. E há muitos lugares, exprimindo em meus versos os anseios
da África. Com o efeito de uma força natural, vitalizada no destino e nos
sonhos de um continente”. Cheio de senso de humor camponês, de uma bondade
activa e infatigável.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Quero revelar ao mundo.
Empenho e na resistência do amor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Convertendo – me numa
cifra de metal sem nome, uma espécie de guerreiro que protesta contra a
injustiça social.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Assim me defino poeta
do povo. Cuidando a forma, o ritmo, e sem perder meu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Ímpeto original,
buscando novas e simples reacções, de um novo mundo harmonioso, cheio de amor
pela existência. Na certeza de uma vocação escolhida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DE POETAS?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">OS POETAS MAIS ALÉM DA MINHA GERAÇÃO FORAM DIGNOS DO SEU
TEMPO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">3-QUAIS SÃO SEUS LIVROS FAVORITOS, AUTORES, ARTISTAS E
POR QUÊ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Meus livros favoritos
são dos escritores da era dourada da poesia, estou falando dos anos vinte. E
por a adiante….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">4- O que você está
trabalhando agora?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">SOU UM HOMEM DE MUITA
CRIATIVIDADE, TENHO SEMPRE IDEIAS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">5-QUANTAS VEZES VOCÊ ESCREVE?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Sou um poeta estudante,
que não leva uma vida extravagante. Defendo meus hábitos literários<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Trabalhando em meu
quarto, escrevendo 5 poemas por dia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Tomando intermináveis
chávenas de chá… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">A minha criatividade da
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para singelos habitantes que pedem: água e lua elementos da ordem orgãos imutável: escolas, pão e vinho
guitarras e ferramentas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bebida favorita<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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QUE FAZ BEM AO MEU ESTOMAGO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PERGUNTA, LEMBRO QUE UMA VEZ ESCREVI NA MINHA FOLHA DE PROVA DE MATEMATICA: “ A
MATEMATICA NÃO É DIFICIL O MAIS DIFICIL É SABER TRANSMITIR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BRAÇOU-ME E DISSE MUITO OBRIGADO POR ESTA BELA LIÇÃO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is my Calling”</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
week I got to meet Lagos based writer, Kelechi Ezeigwe, who breaks from the
mould of accepted African literature by
writing queer poetry. Renowned writer, Charles Bukowski* once wrote, “<i>unless it [poetry] comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it [write].</i>”
Kelechi Ezeigwe definitely didn’t start writing for fame or recognition but
because of an inner calling that could not be ignored, “I am poet not because I
am supposed to be or because I learnt to become one or because being a writer
comes with this gorgeous aura. I am a poet because it is my calling. I am born
with it and what I should be bothered about is whether I am doing that which I
am called to do. Nothing attracted me to writing poetry. It runs in the vein.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KE:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I once told a friend that
there is a sharp difference not only between a man and a woman, but also
between a man and an effeminate man. I know how it feels to be suppressed, to
be perceived as inferior. It comes with something that kills you, that quenches
a fire within. I tell people I’m a feminist because I saw myself being a
feminist. I support women’s rights but I never knew there was a defined name
for that until I was mature enough to discover they call us feminists and I’m
happy being one because it soothes my ideology of freedom, to have a defined
individualism, to be who you are as a human, a woman, an effeminate man, as any
common man out there hatching his or herself out of this suppressing
conformity. There are rights worthy to be fought for; feminist rights, gay
rights. I am fortunate to be woven into these two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">TN: What sort of challenges have you experienced as a budding
writer?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KE:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Well I am still that kind
of budding writer who is yet to feel the warmth or maybe harshness of the
weather. But if there is any challenge I encounter it is the fact that I am
interested in and I prefer to write queer poetry. It is not ‘conformity’, it is
not the ‘African culture’, so many people would say I’m crazy, that I am rotten
not knowing that being Gay is like being black or white or heterosexual, or
African. It is an identity as one of my friends once said. Writing this kind of
literature in a world that detests it is a mountain of a challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">TN: How have you been influenced by other writers?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KE:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Since I met Audre Lords I
walked through the streets with my head much higher than it used to be. I am
happy that I have always been comfortable with myself; I have always been proud
of myself as an effeminate man. Audre Lords fanned the furnace. I love the fact
she is out with whom she is. She is a poet with hundreds of amazons inside of
her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">TN: And how do you feel about the completed project of
the BNAP anthology?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KE:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The anthology is a new
birth to the world, growing everyday with this admirable vitality. I read some
of the reviews and I am happy there are other writers who are interested in
writing queer literature. It is inspiring; it is refreshing. The most beautiful
of all is the fine nature of the book to bear in itself every piece of
humanity, every word and emotion in the heart of humanity, to be born with this
spring of diverse colours of rainbow, of you and of me and of someone out there
seeing his or herself through that anthology; the hundreds of poems. There is
nothing more splendid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kelechi
Ezeigwe has been published in <i>The Muse
journal</i> of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a first prize winner
for poetry in the 2015 Muse Literary Arts Festival. He lives in Lagos.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Charles
Bukowski, “So You Want to be a Writer”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-3113364091999220212016-03-23T12:44:00.000-07:002016-03-23T12:44:20.719-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 21 February 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="PT" style="color: #212121; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS has a
double interview with Fiona Khan and Magno Domingos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="color: #212121; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh085e8FSZQf8QLc9ltw85hPTAmO_ufrcAXPabAaFbcvJVhJVYXqZLffGGlbmy7AaBre5_KQb33NY4Tt-4NLzqsm7aDsuFG_5G0kJ7jwAlJR12voAu92wGzwyB3zcC1p5D7jAMhhJgwC_k/s1600/BNAP.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh085e8FSZQf8QLc9ltw85hPTAmO_ufrcAXPabAaFbcvJVhJVYXqZLffGGlbmy7AaBre5_KQb33NY4Tt-4NLzqsm7aDsuFG_5G0kJ7jwAlJR12voAu92wGzwyB3zcC1p5D7jAMhhJgwC_k/s320/BNAP.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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profundamente em seu mundo bonito e animado como um poeta , pessoa, mulher,
artista e pensador, e cito: " Tudo é por uma razão ou uma escolha ou uma
motivação . Nada é incidental. O Universo eu vejo como uma criação relativa. É
uma fonte de energia transiente e é binária . Nossas vidas aqui são apenas uma
passagem, uma passagem ou um cruzamento. Não há permanência de qualquer coisa
" .</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And here is Magno
Domingos secret. Some day he went to church late with his wife, thus they had to
sit at separate places since the church was almost full. Midway into the preacher
man’s boring sermon, he left for home, forgetting he had come with his wife to church.
Midway home he remembered he had left his wife at church, thus he drove back to
pick her. Magno says this still embarrasses him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My literary
meandering started in 1992. It was my first poem published in America entitled
The Cheetah and the Antelope. It was the start of many successes. These
successes came from a very painful backdrop of domestic violence, emotional and
mental abuse. There was only one thing that could save my sanity and that was
one thing I was born with. My writing! Being gifted was something my teachers
discovered when I entered school. They groomed and nurtured that talent through
much toil and encouragement because I guess I always broke the conventions. I
made and lived by my own rules and restrictions. My appetite and thirst for
writing and reading was and still is voracious. I feel bereft or lost without
it. Having a lonely childhood with very much older brothers and sisters my only
companions were music and books. I am a fantastic singer from opera to pop. I
wrote on everything. Toilet paper, tissues, newspapers, walls, books, pages ….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were many
poems published internationally in many magazines and anthologies. In 1995 I
had my first children’s book published called I Am What I Am in five languages.
It set me on a path that has been an adrenalin rush and I marvelled and
cherished every moment.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What sets me apart
from other poets is that I was raised and taught classics in literature. So I
write with an excellent vocabulary and many feel that it makes me too
bourgeoisie. It was a harsh lesson to tone down. I started spoken word poetry
in 1995 and even converted it into a dramatic art form on stage with Windows of
a Women’s Mind. I know how to teach students and children to write and perform
poetry using rap, musical instruments and drama. I can write immediately on any
topic and that’s versatility. I don’t need prompts. I have not been promoted
much because of racism. Writing and publishing in South Africa has always been white
and elitist and sadly I stood alone all these years fighting the system. Now we
have young black yuppies who have taken up the fight and I am glad. I was
really ostracised for speaking out against the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am a bookaholic
and invented the word ‘únputdownable’ in 1982. I live breathe and write books.
I am listless if I do not read. I have become more sophisticated now with the
social media where I receive all my news, reviews and the latest on everything.
I have quirkiness like I must read a new book or the daily paper that is
untouched. I love the fresh smell and the crispness of the pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My favourite books started
at three years old. I was raised on fairy tales and there was one story that
was edged in my mind as it was used to scare or control my waywardness. It was
called The Hobbiyas and little Dog Turpy. At 4 years old I was an avid reader.
At 5 the librarian used to keep all the Noddy books for me. I revelled in Enid
Blyton and Beatrix Potter and read them voraciously. I was fluent at 5 years of
age. My appetite for books was unstoppable. Even the librarian and my family
couldn’t cope. As I grew as an orphan it became my only solace. I was captivated by Shakespeare at the age of
12 and Thomas Hardy and Dickens, then the Iliad and the Odyssey, I read Lady
Chatterley’s Lover at 12 years. It was a banned book in South Africa. My
brother brought history alive with his vivid narratives of Egypt and Rome and
those books filled my imagination with Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and Julius
Ceaser. I loved French books from Napoleon and Three Musketeers, then Jules
Verne and his Science Fiction, Wilbur Smith because being a South African he
never supported the SA government and apartheid. Unlike other authors who cried
apartheid but forced us to study their hardcore narratives at school and were
supported financially by the education department. I loved the Orientalists in
Ghalib, Tagore and Khalil Gibran. Gibran inspired my love for poetry until I
found that he was very inspired and indirectly copied the styles of Indian
Poets and writers. To Sir with Love was my first introduction into African
literature, then Things Fall Apart. Bessie Head and the American writers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am presently
working on a youth novel, a collection of essays on a gender issue, and my
novels, two of them actually. I break this up with poetry and indeed I work so
I have a full day. My social life is my writing and my followers or my
colleagues. I am the project manager of the Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Award
that focuses on debut and published writers. We kick started the project last
year to a resounding success. I am presently completing my MBA and I am loving
it. It’s my dabbling in the corporate world and its exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I write every day
even if its dabbling, doodling or just toying with ideas. I start at 4 am till
6am then again at 6pm until 10pm. I am flexible with time. My greatest
distraction is procrastination. I do get a bit lazy. Sometimes I ponder both
sides of a story or thought or idea. It takes a few days to reach a resolution.
Then I get back to the writing process. I have had many challenges to divert my
attention and time is not my best buddy write now. There is too much to do and
too little time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything inspires
me. From a bee on a flower, to prayer, to the weather. I see beauty in all of
God’s creation. Because I am a spiritual being, everything is viewed on a
metaphysical level. Everything is for a reason or a choice or a motivation.
Nothing is incidental. The Universe I view as a relative creation. It’s a
source of transient energy and is binary. Our lives here are just a passage, a
passing or a crossing. There is no permanency of anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Food for me has no
value anymore as it has become too genetically modified and engineered. As a
third world country we have become the dumping ground for the rest of the
world. I am an award winning environmentalist. I firmly believe in permaculture
and organic grown foods. The effects of climate change is devastating and has
created a world -wide compromise on food, water and survival. It’s the catalyst
for future wars and civil unrest. So I eat organic with a balanced diet and
keep living simple. My vice is chocolate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am most cautious
in everything I do. I know what’s my destination and I don’t allow people to
deter me. If they do deter me it’s through scheming and conniving. And I do
believe that karma is a bitch scorned. It comes back ten-fold to bite you in
the ass and how.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Leaf did not
Fall is based on my observation last Winter and is an allegory for our
political restlessness. I watched a tree shed its leaves but this one leaf,
grey and shrivelled, refused to fall. For 4 months it bobbed and twirled and
sung to and fro but would not fall. I thought of our President. Tenacious and
indefatigable in keeping his position. No matter how hard his opposers and
political foes dig up the evidence against him, he rises above them and does
not fall. Almost like a weed. I included
this line which is very biblical and a metaphor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Shaded by the Leaven’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In
the Gospel of Luke, they speak of leavened bread. Leaven is a raising agent
like yeast used to make the bread rise. But is also speaks of the work Jesus
did in the community for which few people valued, most never appreciated his
prophethood. And it refers to women being domesticated. When one looks at the
president it is the women who are his strongest supporters, they who keep the
home fires burning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So
the humble beginnings of our President has now become infected and has grown
and has become too large for his own good and that of his country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘The
parched thirst of African soil . . .’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Are
the people of SA. They are tired of being raped and ripped. Then will come the
succession after the elections. People are fickle and feeble with minds that
change all the time. If they are not in favour of a leader ,they will be vocal
by the way they vote. A typical <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">comparison
to Animal Farm by Orwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">BNAP
is innovative in this continent in its strategy. It was researched and targeted
well, looking for a niche market. This concept is only found in America but has
been adapted to suit the African market and expand the opportunities in
publishing. The strategic marketing via social media and using the poet’s
websites and social media site to promote the book in fact encouraged the self
-awareness and sales of the book. Publishing of poetry is limited to an elite
few in Africa. BNAP has created a platform for emerging poets and a jump for
established poets. At cost free the exposure and marketing of the talent and profiles
related in making the poets a commodity and improved their profiles and
saleability. With BNAP on their CV’s they are on the move. BNAP is the
springboard for success for emerging poets.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My
suggestion is that the poems be converted to a spoken word poetry slam at
relevant venues. Its art. Its performance, its poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Conte-nos sobre si mesmo e sua formação
literária .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Não tenho propriamente uma formação na área de literatura. Sou gestor,
agricultor e estudante de economia. Tenho 39 anos de idade, sou pai (de muitos
filhos), e participe das coisas da sociedade. Sou do tipo que não olha a
sociedade a acontecer, prefiro me envolver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O que você acha conjuntos que mais além da
sua geração de poetas ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Creio que não escrevo para ser melhor,
nem almejo ser especial. Apenas escrevo o que me vem à alma, sem seguir as regras
e padrões impostos pela literatura. Na realidade escrevo de forma solta, de
forma algo rebelde. Aí possivelmente está a diferença.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Quais são seus livros favoritos , autores,
artistas e por quê<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Já li muito... Muito mesmo. Sou
absolutamente fã da criatividade de Uanhenga Xitu retratada em Mestre Tamoda,
Caito, Bola de Feitiço. Sou fã de Pepetela desde as suas Aventuras de Ngunga,
Lueji até ao que ele escreve agora.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Na verdade aprecio quase tudo que se
escreve por aí, desde que eu consiga por as minhas mãos nas obras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Mas foi The Canterbury Tales de Chaucer
que mais me impressionou até agora. Acho aquilo uma estrela de obra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O que você está trabalhando agora?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Neste momento estou a escrever dois
livros (nem entendo porquê não terminei ainda), um sobre contos populares, e
outro sobre uma infeliz experiência de cadeia por que passei a alguns meses
atrás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Quantas vezes você escreve?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Escrevo sempre que tiver chance, escrevo
a toda a hora, estou sempre a escrever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O que leva a sua criatividade?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Tudo que acontece na vida, me inspira a
escrever. Absolutamente tudo. Eu escrevo sobre alegria e sobre tristeza. Também
escrevo sobre os momento intermediários dos dois extremos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Qual é a sua comida / bebida favorita?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Gosto de comer massas, mesmo não sendo
italiano.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Ando a algum tempo a lutar contra um
mini-vicio em Coca cola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Conte-nos algo que você fez ou o que
aconteceu para você que você ainda pode se envergonhar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Fui uma vez com a esposa a igreja,
chegamos tarde e o protocolo sentou-nós em lugares diferentes. No final, como
não gosto de ficar nas rodas de conversas, levantei fui para fora, peguei o
carro e fui-me embora... Só já quando estava chegar a casa é que recordei que
havia ido com a esposa e deixei-a na igreja. Esqueci totalmente que não havia
ido sozinho. Voltei, pedi desculpas... Mas enfim, até agora me envergonho de
ter esquecido que fui acompanhado. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Conte-nos sobre seus poemas em BNAP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- escrevo esporadicamente. Nunca planeio o
que vou escrever. Acho que sou uma espécie de observador das coisas que
acontecem em todas as dimensões da vida, e está me inspiram a escrever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Os poemas que estão no BNAP foram feitos
assim, a partir de observações que faço das moções da sociedade em angola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O que você diria que é único sobre os melhores
poetas novos africanos ( BNAP ) antologia e que tipo de impacto você acha que
BNAP terá sobre a próxima geração de escrita Africano ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- A liberdade e espontaneidade que estão
patentes nesta obra, não têm par. E a obra acaba também por dar espaço a poetas,
escritores e pensadores que de alguma forma não tinham espaço para fazer sair o
que escrevem. E de repente temos esta visibilidade toda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- É um exercício bom, que espero que
continue é que tenha também divulgação a nível mais local.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Claro... A continuidade vai certamente
dar aos mais jovens a oportunidade de poderem influenciar-se naquilo que já
está escrito, e a terem também a sua oportunidade de se anunciar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-18364913192101890042016-03-14T06:24:00.000-07:002016-03-14T06:41:45.914-07:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS SERIES: Week of 14 March 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bem
na verdade nunca tive nenhuma formação literária pois a minha área de formação
é Marketing A minha única formação foi mesmo na "Universidade da
Vida"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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que os poetas da nova geração perderam o norte em relação a verdadeira essência
principalmente da literatura poética temos que nos afincar determinadamente no
alcance do resgate de valores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eu
leio vários livros de autores Africanos e não só o último livro que li foi
"O quase fim do mundo" de Pepetela e neste momento estou a ler
"O Inferno" de Dan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">agora
estou a trabalhar na minha mais recente obra literária um livro de poesia cujo
titulo será revelado ao publico em breve. Eu escrevo sempre que me encontro
inspirado ou impelido a faze-lo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #e0edff; color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>quanto ao numero de vezes que escrevo depende muito do que
me vai na alma no momento a inspiração é um dom divino e há momentos em que nos
sentimos mais inspirados e outros menos enfim o que me leva a criatividade a minha
Angola e as suas realidades as suas utopias o sofrimento e a alegria dos
musseques de Luanda a quitandeira a peixeira o monandengue brincando com o seu
carrinho de lata tudo isso me inspira e gera criatividade<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #e0edff; color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>minha comida preferida é um bom prato de branco feijão de
oleo de palma peixe frito e salada<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #e0edff; color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>bem quanto a ultima resposta diria que os ultimos serão os
primeiros e quem se humilha certamente será exaltado ademais ninguém é melhor
do que ninguém e quando acharmos que somos os melhores Deus fará sempre com que
apareça alguém melhor do que nós<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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sombra de duvidas bastante positive pois impulsionará a nova geração a se
aprimorar no mundo da escrita abraços</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-25606286172484686172016-03-11T06:21:00.000-08:002016-03-11T06:41:18.497-08:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS SERIES, Week of 7 March 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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long have you been in the poetry game?</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I started writing when I was 13 and had poems
published in our school magazine and a South African national publication of
school poetry called English Alive, when I was 16 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">What
kind of poetry/ storytelling tradition exist in your </span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">culture/country and has this had any bearing
on your writing?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I think that there has
always been a strong tradition of political activist poetry because of
apartheid but there are also strong themes relating to the natural beauty of
South Africa. We are a very diverse culture with many traditions but story
telling is a strong theme. Most of our indigenous history in South Africa, and
I guess the rest of Africa, has been handed down from one generation to another
through story telling</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">What
urban influences (eg hip hop, slam poetry) have influenced your writing?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I grew up in the 70’s
when there was a strong theme of the struggle of concrete jungle versus nature.
I attend quite a few slam poetry events
but it’s not my genre really. I read my own poetry very regularly</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">What
style of writing (free verse, lyrical etc) do you lean towards?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I like simplicity. My
poems have no capitals and no punctuation. Free verse is my primary medium but
I do quite a bit of lyrical stuff and rhyming poetry – also some traditional
forms like sonnets.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Which
writers have influenced your writing?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I try not to be too
influenced by anyone in particular but I have to say that my early influences
were Khalil Gibran and Dylan Thomas. I am continually assimilating the poetry
of those around me such as the great
poets at Off the Wall like Hugh Hodge, Jacques Coetzee, Ralph Goodman and Riaz
Solke, not to mention all the work that has come to light in the new anthology.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">You
mention that you’ve been a guest poet at Off the Wall, how do you think spoken
word events help to preserve the art form and how do you think they’ve “changed
the game.”</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I believe that the
relevance of any poets work is in the ear of the hearer. Poetry stirs the depth and breadth of our emotions. It
inspires, warns and laughs with us. All of this cannot happen just as words on
a page. There is an interaction when poetry is read and when you read you very
soon discover what has quality and what has not by the reaction of those in the
room. Reading and performing is completely essential. It’s the life-blood of what we do as poets.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">In
what ways have you used poetry to engage with your community?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I have written poems that
relate to political hierarchy, war, poverty, religion. In London recently I was
staying near an old Victorian School that was being torn down and wrote a poem
about it that was used as part of the anti-demolition campaign on their
website. (Unfortunately we failed, but at least we tried!) Poets are relevant.
We reflect the ethos of our own thinking and the societies we live in. When
great events are remembered it is always poems that are read because we reflect
the deepest thoughts and emotions of the communities we form part of.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Have
you read the anthology as yet, if so how do you think it changes the shape of
African literature?</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> I received my copy just
the other day. I’m not finished reading it yet. Time will tell how significant
this anthology is. We walk in the steps of great African writers and, who
knows, maybe some of the anthology poets will rise to the levels of those that
have gone before. I personally think that the value of the anthology lies in
its diversity – many poems on many subjects written by many African voices from
many diverse cultures and countries within our great mother continent.</span></b><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">BEST "NEW" AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY can be purchased at Amazon and in South Africa at Exclusive books here </span></b><br />
<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b> http://www.exclus1ves.co.za/books/Best-New-African-Poets-2015-Anthology-Edited-by-Tendai-R-Mwanaka-Edited-by-Daniel-Da-Purifacacao/000000000100000000001000000000000000000000000009789956763481/</b></span></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-31065768198196790722016-03-04T05:04:00.000-08:002016-03-04T05:04:22.012-08:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS: Week of 29 February 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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poetry at the age of 9,” says Harare based poet Edward Dzonze. “I started
reading poetry when I was in grade four – my mother had a copy of O’kot p
Bitek’s <i>Song of Lawino</i> and at first I
thought the book was a collection of songs .When my mother heard me singing the
poems that is when she explained to me what poetry was. Right then I told her
my dream was to become a poet someday. Over the years, poetry has allowed me to
express my feelings and thoughts and engage with the world around me on issues
that concern us all in one way or the other.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> My writing
is not influenced by any particular form or pattern because I write to express
and address any situation in whatever form and manner that I think and feel
will get the message, in its inspired form, across to the reader.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2007 and it has given me the courage and strength to keep writing because I
know there is someone out there, someone is looking forward to what I have to
offer. Sometimes I feel like writing is not worth it but when I get to meet an
audience that looks at me with awe, I’m inspired to go home and write on.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> I joined
the <i>House Of Hunger Poetry Slam</i> in
2007 and slamming along the likes of Cde Fatso, veteran poet Mbizo Chirasha ,
Shoes Lambada , the late Tsino Maruma , Cynthia Marangwanda , Khadija and other
poets gave me all the experience and confidence a writer needs. I learnt to
believe in my work even though I never emerged the lucky poet in all the slams
I part-took .The Book Café also helped us [young writers] with workshops in
which we got to interact with seasoned
writers who gave us the hope to believe in the pen. The likes of Musayemura
Zimunya, the late Chenjerai Hove and Chirikure Chirikure. Looking at the
recently published BNAP anthology, I guess the tone of the book is what makes
it memorable – the voices contained therein carry the zeal and assurance that
in Africa there are always voices that are yearning to be heard which can
equally express what seasoned writers can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-22454565687554626702016-02-25T10:12:00.001-08:002016-02-25T10:12:28.805-08:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEW SERIES: Week of 22 February 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with Mike Kantey and Chuma Mmeka<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="color: #212121; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esta semana , nós da BNAP falou com Chuma
Mmeka , o poeta / escritor / ator, extraordinário sobre poesia e no próximo
poesia geração. Nascido em meados dos anos 70 da Nigéria , Chuma testemunhou
muitos abusos e tem usado a poesia como uma forma de se expressar.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;">You have described yourself as a new generation writer, what do you
think sets you most apart from the old generation?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;">CM: First, I will say that the fact that I write all
my work of poetry in modern day English sets me apart from those whose poems
still sound the tone of archaic construction. Usually when people write poetry
in Nigeria and indeed the rest of the world, a collection would comprise a few
true tales and much more of fiction to make up a book length. I didn't want my
work to be like that, so I made it a point of duty to write only of my personal
experiences. My writing resolve takes me time, but it has already given me two
full book lengths. Also, in my wide book reading, I am yet to find a single
collection of poems that is like my book <i>The
Broken Home</i>. With several poems showcasing a wide sphere of themes
including culture, love, hate, patriotism, etc. in formal verse, free verse,
sonnet etc. and all telling the progressive true life story of a baby boy
offspring of a marriage gone awry, who grows into a man experiencing the causes
and negative effects of abuse in the family; the work remains the first of its
kind in a literary world where long stories of this nature are written mainly
as prose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what advantage do you think poetry has over other art forms you’ve used and how
do they dovetail with each other?</span></b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the only art form that allows me to disgorge the contents of my mind in an
unfettered manner.</i> While I am also an actor in the Nigerian film industry
for instance, the story line is usually fictional and someone else's work. In
the end however, all the art forms in which I am involved with, dovetail into
each other as they each afford me the opportunity to reach a wide range of
people with my messages and motivational ideology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;">What would you say is unique about the <i>Best New African Poets (BNAP)</i> anthology and what sort of impact do
you think BNAP will have on the next generation of African writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;">CM: BNAP can be said to be unique in the sense that
it is one of the first poetry anthologies that recognize the talents of new
breed African poets. I see this <i>BNAP</i>
first edition as a motivator for the next generation of African writers who are
searching for opportunities that recognize and accept skills without feeling
like you are being choked with some colloquial bottle necks. The next edition
will no doubt be a bomb as there are already many young African poets cannot
afford to miss out from it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(or parts of it) which pieces really stuck out for you and why?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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poems in the anthology: “A People's Culture”, “My Ekpe Dance”, and “Once Upon A
Christmas Day” are the only poems I saw in the anthology that centre on
contemporary African tradition, depicting local cultural values that have
continued to survive till date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Best “New” African Poets Anthology can be purchased at
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<pre style="background: white;"><span lang="PT" style="color: #212121; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mike Kantey sente o que diferencia o BNAP de todos os outros livros de poesia é porque todos os grupos de nós em um livro , promove o espírito de africanism pan e nos faz sentir mais perto de si</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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introduced you to poetry?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> MK: Poetry was always in my life:
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poetry/ storytelling tradition exist in your culture/country and has this had
any bearing on your writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MK: Being a multilingual country with many
cultures from all over the world, I have been exposed throughout my life to
many voices and many traditions, so that I was led to study not only English at
the University of Cape Town, but also Greek & Roman Literature and
Philosophy and Religious Studies and I also majored in the African Languages.
As a result, all of my work is conscious of the variety of human experience and
culture, and all my writing is multi-voiced and multi-cultural in spirit and
expression.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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you to writing books for children and how does your approach to writing change
when you’re writing for adults?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MK: I have always been attracted to children’s
literature and often collected award-winning literature from all over the
world. I then worked as a publisher in the nine African languages of Southern
Africa, with a high percentage in the first few years of mass schooling, so it
was natural for me to write for that audience. I guess the difference lies in
the simplicity of both the story and the language, the greater element of
surprise and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Great stories for children are like great
jokes: short and to the point. Novels and narratives (like <i>All Tickets, Touching Circles, </i>and <i>Touching Hands</i>) are like choo-choo trains: a bunch of little
stories all strung together and a little bit drawn out.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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influences have influenced your writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MK: The biggest influence in my life has been
the City of Cape Town, although I am familiar with many others through the
power of literature, TV, radio, and film, and by visiting (among others) Paris,
Rome, London, Amsterdam, New York, and San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How have you been
able to interlink your love for poetry and your love for environmental (and
other forms of) activism?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MK: Some of my poems are expressly political,
some are obviously talking about environmental themes, but I am more likely to
talk about the tinier details of the environment (like a bee tumbling within a
flower), some influence of Chinese and Japanese poetry, and more importantly
about my ever-abiding love of particular women in my life at a particular time
in the past (and – of course – my
current partner), which I guess owes tribute to the tradition of love poetry
and troubadours throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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also has experience with editing, what do you think sets the BNAP anthology
from other African anthologies?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MK: Obviously,
the wide selection from different countries is what sets this anthology apart,
but also I think the spirit of Pan-Africanism: the idea that we are all
brothers and sisters in one sub-Continent, or region of Africa, and therefore
it helps me to feel closer to those of my brothers and sisters in the north.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-15387723343989574812016-02-15T00:15:00.000-08:002016-02-15T04:55:10.032-08:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS: Week of 15 February 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Coates é um poeta com base Cape Town que tem um grande interesse em preservar a
história pessoal e poesia é a sua plataforma escolhida para expressar
pensamentos. Christine fala sobre seu amor por contar uma história única
através da poesia e como a antologia BNAP leva de volta para o ex-presidente
Sul-Africano, o sonho de Thabo Mbeki de um Renascimento Africano.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> ‘I’ve always loved reading stories and poetry,
says writer Christine Coates whose poetry has been featured in the<i> Best New African Poets</i> (BNAP)
Anthology, “I have a creative urge and this led me, together with my love of
reading, books and art, to wanting to express myself in poetry and story. I
wanted to tell my story, write about the world I inhabit.’ Influenced by many
writers, Christine learnt that she needed to make time and space for herself as
a writer. ‘Emily Dickinson’s unique and secret voice urged me – doing what she
had to do or she would die. Mary Oliver’s nature poetry inspires me, Anjtjie
Krog teaches me to express my anger, my rage boldly. I love some of the newer
American writers like Rae<b> </b>Armantrout,
or a Danish poet like Inger Christensen. I love discovering new (to me) poets.
Doing a Masters in Creative Writing gave me structure and the encouragement to
tell my story my way. Reading is what changes my writing most – I began to find
my own voice, began to trust my own story, began writing from what I know. I believe
we all have a creative urge but we need to find an outlet for it. Everyone has
a unique story – it’s all we really have. I love widely reading other poets and
I study all the time.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘</span></b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
have really only our unique story – and the BNAP anthology is a lovely
gathering of unique voices. There are stories here – sad, hopeful, angry,
disappointed, happy stories. We must tell our stories if we are to recover.
Collectively, telling our stories helps us meet each other over the stretch of
the continent. As they say African is continent not a country, but it is a
country too. This anthology makes me feel that – one with my countrymen and
women. <i>Poets are witnesses and voices</i>
– sometimes we are lone voices that cry out in the desert, but I believe we can effect change. There are many wonderful poems and poets in this anthology.
“Inside Timbuktu” by Lekpele M Nyamalon struck me as it echoed what I said
about stories. Timbuktu is mentioned elsewhere in the anthology. It resonates
with South Africa’s ex-President Mbeki’s dream for an African Renaissance and
his vision to save the Timbuktu manuscripts. Now they are destroyed and, as the
poet says, “Timbuktu – we need you”. We need poetry and stories to save us. I
also loved Idara Idemeko’s idea of memory and the Diaspora; “I could not
remember not because I forgot,/but because I was a stranger in my mother’s
land./And yet I was home”. And her
“Filing Cabinets and Smoked Peppers” – a beautiful and sad portrait, “a song
for the broken”. I loved the litany of the “I am” in Ohioleh Osadebey’s “I Have
Learned to Boast like My Fathers”, and his “The Thing I’d Love to Tell My
Father”. I loved the images in Aaron Brown’s “N’Djamena Morning” – the sun
shining in patches through the trees – “the trees with needle-thin leaves/and
Moussa tuning the radio”. Also his poem “Twin” struck me deeply. I loved the
bravery of Taijbet Nyobi’s “Bold Fade” – “…the open wound/became a mouth that
could talk back/became a shelled muscle that spilled pearls/became oceanic
enough to hold rage and sadness/became mine”. There are many other gifted poets
and strong voices.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sónia Robalo, who stays in</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span lang="EN-ZW" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Fundão,
Portugal</span>,</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">talks of what drives her poetry, she laughingly tells of how both excessive
happiness and sadness are the drivers of her creativity. Her mother immersed her
into poetry at young age, she confides in us how her soul is Angolan and her heart
is Portuguese, thus she uses these two cultures to fashion her stories.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BestNewAfricanPoets2015/insights/?section=navLikes"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Há quanto tempo você está no jogo para
a poesia</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tenho, uma relação muito especial com os
livros, desde que me recordo de ser “gente”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Tive
a sorte de ter uns pais que sempre me incentivaram a ler. Levavam-me a
bibliotecas e às melhores livrarias com muita frequência. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Escrevo poesia, como escrevo prosa…tudo
depende ao que me proponho fazer e ao meu estado de espírito no momento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Existem duas razões básicas para eu escrever
poesia: ou por excesso de felicidade ou por excesso de tristeza (risos).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As
Almas infelizes são capazes de criar as maiores obras literárias. Talvez porque
o ser humano aprecie um bom drama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Sempre li poesia, mas senti-la na sua
verdadeira essência?!...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Talvez tenha despoletado a minha veia poética
criativa com o meu primeiro desgosto de amor ( risos).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Que tipo de poesia/ storytelling
tradição existe na sua cultura/país e que isso teve qualquer influência na sua
escrita</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A minha Alma é Angolana e o meu Coração é
Português. Sinto-me assim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Essa
mistura influenciou não só o meu DNA, mas acima de tudo a minha visão das
coisas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As
duas culturas influenciam constantemente a forma como percepciono o que me
rodeia e por conseguinte a forma como escrevo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> A
poesia Angolana é o espelho da sociedade Angolana. Os poetas tentam, com esta
arte, chamar a atenção do que se passa à sua volta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> É uma
poesia que “arranha” constantemente a situação socio-politica que o país vive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> A
poesia Portuguesa transporta-nos para uma realidade um pouco diferente. O
panorama socio-politico é diferente, pelo que a tónica de quem escreve poesia é
diferente de um poeta Angolano. Embora se possam de alguma forma cruzar em certos
âmbitos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> A
poesia Portuguesa é muito virada para o amor e tudo o que este transporta enquanto
sentimento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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que a forma como escrevo, tem influência directa destas duas culturas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Que influências ( por exemplo HipHop,
batida da poesia) urbano influenciaram sua escrita</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Todos os acontecimentos que me rodeiam têm
uma influência relevante naquilo que escrevo. Seja na prosa ou na poesia.
Escrevo sobre o que vejo à minha volta, o que sinto, o que percepciono. Gosto
de escrever sobre sentimentos, vivências. Gosto de escrever sobre o amor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lírica etc) você inclinar-se para</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tenho uma predição por versos livres. Os
chamados versos irregulares, que não possuem restrição métrica.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Talvez
isso aconteça pela afinidade que tenho com a prosa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quais escritores que influenciaram a
sua escrita</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">São muitos os Escritores/ Poetas que me
influenciam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Florbela Espanca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pablo Neruda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inspiram-me fortemente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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expatriado/ refugiados influenciado você está escrevendo</span></u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Claro que as minhas raízes estão sempre
presentes no que escrevo. Não só na poesia, mas nos livros que escrevo, nos
artigos para jornais, nas crónicas…em tudo. Não posso fugir do que sou, e isso,
influência a minha forma de ver os factos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Não me perco nos mitos do tempo, porque
nunca me esqueço de onde vim.As minhas origens estão sempre na minha memória…e
nos meus horizontes também.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Transporto a saudade do que vivi e do que
fui para o agora. Essa transição, entre duas culturas diferentes, marcou-me,
mas nem por isso de uma forma negativa. Sinto-me filha de duas“mães” e
aproveito essa mais valia a meu favor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conte-nos sobre os seus poemas em BNAP
e se você já leu a antologia em tudo, o que você golpeou sobre ele?<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Best “ New” African Poets
2015 Anthology enche-me de orgulho.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Primeiro, por mostrar o talento Africano.
Pessoas diferentes, com vivências diferentes, mas com algo em comum…o gosto
pela escrita. Incorporamos o espírito Africano que nos une às diferenças que
também nos acabam por unir…SOBERBO. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Existem lugares no mundo cuja história ficou
marcada por largos períodos de luta e sofrimento. Que continuam a viver nesse
registo até hoje. Um desses lugares chama-se África.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">E nós…os seus filhos, fomos chamados para
que de alguma forma acendêssemos a chama do espírito humano colectivo. E não é
para esse despertar que serve também a poesia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Desenvolveu-se uma forma de expressão
artística de excelente qualidade, que ficará registada como uma herança que
perdurará no tempo. Muito nossa. Muito Africana, mas com a globalização bem
presente em cada um de nós.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Os meus poemas, são a minha pequena
contribuição para esta grandiosa obra que envaidece a todos nós que amamos a
nossa África.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-1391110685585660082016-02-09T23:23:00.002-08:002016-02-09T23:23:33.878-08:00IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS SERIES: Week 8 February 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This week I’ve had conversations with two
Zimbabwean poets who are not only writers but are, in different ways,
custodians of African literature. Veteran poet John Eppel preserves literature
by teaching the next generation whilst Hosea Tokwe is not only a librarian but
also involved heavily in initiatives such as the Writer’s International Network
(WIN).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Zimbabwe’s Veteran Poet (John Eppel)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW">As a poet who’s
been writing for decades, what sort of changes have you seen in the African
literary community over the years?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW">I have seen a movement away from themes dominated by nationalism (e.g.
Wilson Katiyo) to more nuanced themes involving poverty, corruption, and
identity. The genre of the epic is being replaced by something closer to satire
(e.g. Petina Gappah).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW">What kind of
poetry/ storytelling tradition exist in your culture/country and has this had
any bearing on your writing?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW">I was brought up on English nursery rhymes, English children's stories
and verses, English novelists, poets, and playwrights. My primary school
teachers in colonial Zimbabwe were all British expats who transferred their
nostalgia to their all-white pupils. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW">As a white man
living in Africa, has your identity been a bone of contention in any way and
has this influenced your poetry in any way?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW">It's been a huge bone of contention and has dominated my writing,
resulting in a satirical voice in my prose and a close-to confessional voice in
my poetry.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW">What would you
say is unique about the <i>BNAP</i>
anthology and what sort of impact do you think <i>BNAP </i>will have on the next generation of African writing?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW">Its Pan-African scope certainly is unique, and I believe its impact will
be entirely positive<b>.</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW">As a teacher of
English, what sort of impact do you think a Pan African anthology such as this
one will have on students (if it were to be taken up as a set book)?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW">Its structure, hundreds of African poets, each providing only a few
poems, will help reverse the global trend towards the cult of the ego.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hosea
Tokwe speaks about the influence of Shona folklore on his writing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;"> ‘I’ve been writing for four years now,’ says
the Gweru based librarian, Hosea Tokwe. ‘I
remember presenting my first poem “Dusk”
at a Poetry Slam event hosted by Pamberi Trust during the WIN-Zimbabwe
Launch, with the likes of Tatenda Muchuri, Ticha Muzavazi, Mbizvo and others.’ </span><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;"> Inspired by Shona folklore and legends taught
to him by his grandmother, Tokwe learnt to pen his own short stories and poems
that have allowed him to reflect on his traditional upbringing. African writers
such as Kamara Laye, William Conton and Legson Kayira have formed an integral
part of his writing education, ‘My
styles are varied as they are influenced by variety of authors that I read. I
love to read books from African Writers Series, as they dwell on traditional
and social background. They inspire me to also write about experiences I
encounter.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;">But what is his take on
this beautiful project he has been a part of? ‘It is the diversity of poems
available in the anthology (<i>Best New
African Poets</i>) touching on different subjects that is so unique. It will
provoke next generation to dwell more on subjects that affect their society
thus share them with a wider audience.’</span><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZW;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-20164747545443261572016-02-05T07:30:00.003-08:002016-02-05T07:30:54.472-08:00Daniel da Purificação, uma visão sobre a poesia africana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">REDE ANGOLA interviews editor Daniel da Purificacoao about BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY this week, more here</span><br />
http://www.redeangola.info/especiais/nao-ha-uma-voz-homogenea-na-poesia-africana/</div>
mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-50921142880046428652016-02-03T09:45:00.002-08:002016-02-03T10:23:48.942-08:00Em Série Entrevista Em Profundidade : Semana 01 de Fevereiro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span style="color: #f79646; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Entrevista com o Soberano Canhanga<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #f79646; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Tariro Ndoro</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #f79646; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6;">:</span><span style="color: #f79646; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> <span style="background: white;">Há quanto tempo você está no jogo para a poesia</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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noventa do século pasado. Porém, o lado artístico surge mais tarde quando passo
a usá-la como forma de expressão das minhas captações sociais que não
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<b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">TN:</span></b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Que tipo de
poesia / storytelling tradição existe na sua cultura / país e que isso teve
qualquer influência na sua escrita?</span><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Os verdadeiros poetas de todo
o mundo são livres na sentir e no dizer. Assim é em Angola. Marcou o meu
período de afirmaçao intelectual a poesia épica de exaltação aos feitos
patrióticos bem como a lírica com as suas “canções” à esperança por dias
melhores. O Amor e a Pátria juntavam-se num mesmo gérero. Isso foi fundamental
para despertar o meu lado artístico que andava incubado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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influências (por exemplo, hip hop , batida da poesia ) urbano influenciaram sua
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dos anos oitenta e noventa do sáculo passado davam corpo à música mais
difundida pela Rádio. Era o que formava a nossa consciência de novos cidadãos
do país ainda emprionário. Os versos cantados forjaram homens que travaram
ventos...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">TN:</span></b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Qual estilo de
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exprimir-me de forma conservadora, seguido a harmonia e a rítmica que marcou a
poesia do século XX, é na liberdade do verso que mais me encontro. Para mim, a
poesia nada mais é senaºao a conituidade da prosa e, sobretudo da crónica. Sou
um cronista. A poesia serve para dizer, às vezes, em poucas palavras o muito
que não cabe numa crónica. É o refúgio silencioso de quem tem muito por
dizer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">TN:</span></b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Quais
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heterodoxo, tendo lido Textos de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Alda Lara, Noémia do
Espirito Santo, Agostinho Neto, Alexandre Dáskalos, Aires de Almeida Santos,
entre outros lusófonos. É essa imensidão do secular verso lusófono que me
influencia e vai continuar a fazê-lo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">TN:</span></b><span lang="PT" style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Como é que o
status de imigrante / expatriado / refugiados influenciado você está
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Não taxativamente o estatuto
de imigrante ou refugiado. É a condiçao de ter chegado à grande cidade de
Luanda na condição de deslocado (emigrante interno)que despertou em mim a
necessidade do registo das captaçoes sensoriais e emocionais. Tornei’me um coleccionador
de cenas do quotidiano e, à certa altura, senti a necessidade de ir registando
em versos ou prosa, aquilo que era o país do meu tempo. É também uma forma de
fazer história.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sobre seus poemas em BNAP e Se você já leu a antologia em tudo, o que você
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me lembro, um é Mano Décimo e o outro é À hora do grito. Mas há um terceiro de
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When “African literature” rose in popularity in the
1960’s times where much simpler: the great writers of the time had been born
and raised on the continent and the issues they tackled could easily be
identified as “African problems.” Fast forward to the 21st century and now
there are many writers of African descent who are writing outside Africa’s
borders. The recent anthology of African poetry edited by Tendai Mwanaka and
Daniel da Purifacação has included voices from over 23 African nations and
their respective diasporas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about poetry, forms and writing in the diaspora.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">TN : How long have you been in the poetry game?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: I have been exploring the art of poetry for five
years now, which is still relatively a short time. In many ways I still feel
like an infant. I am currently entering my fourth year of graduate study, and I
am working toward my Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alaska,
Anchorage’s Creative Writing and Literary Arts Program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your culture/country and has this had any bearing on your writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: In the US, we typically focus on the use of forms.
Explorations of traditional forms and finding ways to deliver modern content
within those restraints are some of the approaches that literary magazines and
journals seem attracted to. In addition to “taking the old and making it new,”
the US has really embraced poetry written from spoken language. I can
write in my dialect, with all of its historical connotations, and that is
welcomed. As far as my own poetic content, it mostly consists of finding
the right metaphor to express my past and present experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: I have been influenced by all of the above (hip hop
and slam poetry) subconsciously. The trick is finding the right way to include
a broader audience. One way to do that is through the use of forms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: I have to say, currently, I am tinkering with both.
Really though, the poem does the deciding for me. I may sit down to write a
formal lyric poem, and it will come out as a Bardic free verse, or vice versa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: I’m always in search for that poem that resonates.
I’m in constant search of that “Wow!” moment. I have too many poets I
enjoy—many more I have yet to discover. Currently I am reading Zeina Hashem
Beck, but in the past I have found inspiration from Kwame Dawes, Patricia
Smith, Linda McCarriston, Terrance Hayes, Yehuda Amichai, Yehoshua November,
Fady Joudah, Agha Shahid Ali, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Pablo Neruda,
Kahlil Gibran, Danez Smith, Tarfia Faizullah, Tara Ballard (my wife)…the list
goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: As a poet of the diaspora, I often find myself
attracted to poetry that either expresses moments in transit, of longing,
forced or reinforced settlement. Visiting the places that my family has come
from has helped to broaden my perspective on history and colonizers. My poetry
seeks to marry to two, literally and metaphorically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your community?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: As with anything a poet writes, my hope is that it
will encourage readers to take a second look at what is being addressed—the
content and its purpose—even if it is from a different angle or perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make it big in the next 10 years and why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CB: That is a great question, and a difficult one to
answer because there are so many new and fresh faces out right now. In the US,
I believe we are witnessing an emergence in the realm of “queer poetry,”
especially in the African American poetry community. I believe that much of the
strong and new poetry coming out are from those like Danez Smith and Cameron
Awkward-Rich. I think their challenge, like many of our challenges, will be to
resist the categorization of their poetry that may limit their readership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">TN: How do you think this anthology changes the face of
modern African writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe what this anthology has set out to accomplish,
and is accomplishing, both for the continent of Africa and the diaspora is
ambitious and necessary. At its most basic level, The Best “New” African Poets
2015 Anthology looks to creates a contextual dialogue between continental
Africans as well as with Africans of the diaspora. In a much broader sense, it
unites all those of continental descent, whether localized, and<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> of
the diaspora, through our “deal[ing] with a panoply of issues, feelings,
thoughts, ideas, beliefs..., on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness,
Arabic, Asian...), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance,
corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, [and] love...”
Through this anthology we are made known to one another, both visibly and
audibly, and, as with all things written, this anthology creates a lasting
platform to address various issues spurred by open dialogue. It is proper and
right that such an ambitious endeavor has risen out of the continent of Africa
herself—this anthology is the response of her children and their ideas about
place and home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chaun Ballard was raised in both Missouri and
California. For six years now, he and his wife have been teaching in the Middle
East & West Africa. He is currently a graduate student in the University of
Alaska, Anchorage’s MFA Program. He’s had poems recently accepted by Apogee,
The Caribbean Writer, Grist: The Journal for Writers, Sukoon, Orbis: Quarterly
International Literary Journal, Off the Coast, and other literary magazines. His
photos can be seen in the latest issues of Gravel and The Silk Road Review.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I was introduced to poetry when at the age of 8,” says
New York poet Brok’N Sylance, “when my second grade teacher; Sharon Taberski
read a poem to start each day. Above every other assignment, I looked forward
to the free form of the words and the rhythm and sound of each line.” A year
later she wrote her first poem and a year after that she penned her first
poetry anthology as a part of a class assignment. It was not until I got into
high school that I was moved to join the spoken word scene. Growing up in
Harlem, in the late 80’s, early 90’s introduced Brok’N Sylance to Hip Hop
and was a pivotal part of her relationship with the spoken word tradition: “I
enjoyed watching music videos, free style battles and anything lyrically based
that required an artist to purposefully choose their words in order to convey a
certain point. I was blown away by their craft.” 2pac, Biggie, Eve and Lauryn
Hill were some of the MCs she looked up to. Spoken word hasn’t just been a
mouthpiece for Brok’N Sylance but has also allowed her to step into different
communities and be the change, “spoken word poetry awakened me to becoming more
engaged with my community. I would be hired by an organization just to share a
poem about a particular issue and then would end up volunteering. I did not
just want to talk about the change I wanted to see but began to realize that I
needed to be actively engaged as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first felt an awareness of not belonging when she saw her grandmother struggle
with language barriers, “I would have spoken more about language barriers, what
it is like having to transform into another human in order to become a part of.
I caught on early even when my grandmother spoke no English. I saw how she
struggled, how she was respected and I told myself that was not going to happen
to me but still quietly, I admired her strength. Sadly, I do not know enough
major African writers and I will blame my Eurocentric education for that.
Ironically as a first generational Ghanaian, my parents did not speak much of
our oral tradition but as I was in college, I began to look deeper at its
comparisons especially through spoken word. However, I am proud of Best “New”
African Poets Anthology and the poets that have dared to share their soul and
look forward to supporting their work in the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #323333;">Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv6002545662yui_3_16_0_1_1452773840091_100731" style="color: #323333;">Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contains poems that deal with a panoply of modern issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and beliefs on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian...), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis) governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. </span></div>
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<span id="yiv6002545662yui_3_16_0_1_1452773840091_100726" style="color: #323333;">It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323;">Published by LANGAA RPCIG Press and edited by Tendai R. Mwanaka and Daniel da Purifacação, this unprecedented anthology of poetry by African Poets presents 3 languages, French, English and Portuguese and represents many more indigenous languages, dialects and experiences of people. Poets of the anthology believe that this collection will be critical in 2016 in preserving the voices of Africans all over the Diaspora and African Americans after the hype and toil of the “Black Lives Matter” Movement that has expanded globally. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323;">It not only unifies the struggle of all voices but exhibits its collective uniqueness and why they not only matter but deserve to be celebrated in all of it’s shades locally and abroad. International and national book readings are anticipated to be held by the various poet and literary communities around the world to build a greater sense of solidarity in 2016 and beyond. Mwanaka, a multi-disciplinary artist who now lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe contends that: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323;">“<i>These are the stories of a village that has come together for a festival of stories, songs, poetry, and celebration of its humanity. This village is called Africa. Best "New" African Poets 2015 Anthology is our record of this festival to the World. I hope you will enjoy celebrating with us, as we enjoyed creating such a spectacle</i>”. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453210332833_8355" style="color: #232323;">Daniel da Purificação is<b> </b> a journalist on rádio and a freelancer, teacher at university, public policy consultant who was born in Angola and is an avid visitor of the Hispanamerican Writers summit HORAS DE JUNIO that happens every year in Sonora (México).</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453210332833_8353" style="color: #232323;">“Please buy a copy,” says Mwanaka. “And swim in modern day Africa’s poetic traditions and beauty in its many, sometimes conflicting facets and enjoy yourself.”</span></div>
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<span id="yiv6002545662yui_3_16_0_1_1452773840091_102559" style="color: #232323;">This book is available from the publisher, printer and Amazon.com, the AFRICAN BOOKS COLLECTIVE and LANGAA RPCIG which publishes “to contribute to the cultural development and renaissance of Africa.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The Arrangement of
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> My Mother’s
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> De Baixo da
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tendai Rinos Mwanaka</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Contracted books
coming out in 2015 include, <i>Zimbabwe: The
Urgency of Now (creative nonfiction), Finding a Way Home (stories novel),
Revolution (poems), <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Democracy, Good Governance, and
Development in Africa (scholarly essays, co-editor)</span></strong>.</i> Other books
published, <i>Keys in the River (stories
novel), Voices from Exile (poetry), Zimbabwe: The Blame Game (creative
nonfiction).</i> He is also a visual artist (photography, painting, drawing,
collage, video.), sound/musical artist, mentor, translator, scholar, theorist,
reviewer, editor, critic... Work has been published in over 300 journals in
over 27 countries, translated into French, Germany and Spanish.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Daniel da Purificação</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">, was born in
1983 in some place called Angola. Has a Bachelor diplome and Master degree. He
likes to speak and read, is always thinking and writing all the time. Since
2002 he has lived out of the place where he was born. He is a Honour invited at
Hispanamerican Writers summit HORAS DE JUNIO that happens every year in Sonora
(México). He also works as journalist on rádio and a freelancer, teaches at
university, is a public policy consultant... He is also a recomended
facilitator and he talks about society, philosophy, politics, education, democracy...
He has two collection of books of poems (THE ANGOPOEMS and INTERMITENCIAS) that
he hopes will be postdeath publications... Now he lives between México and
Angola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
<b>Poetry Progeria</b>, Osita Kabba writes
that it is a metaphor for premature ageing. “The poem is from the perspective
of a young boy (myself) having to mature faster due to the absence of my
father. I understand it to be the norm of my people to have an absentee father
and I hope to change that.” We decided on this part title to <b>BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY,</b>
because we started this project without any help whatsoever. We are saying
without our fathers we want to learn to grow and change our circumstances as
Osita’s statement on his poem affirms at the end, “…and I hope to change that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
easier to just sit and complain that us poets are neglected by the
establishment (which frankly, we are) than to just stand up and do something,
and try to change the game. We affirm the adage, “poetry is a vocation”, thus
it means we have to focuss on the day to day participation in it and avoid
being politicians who are fond of complaining and finding excuses for why
things are not the way they want them to be. With that intention in mind we
decided to change the game, its one step at a time. We will be the first the
say we don’t expect recognition or any help from anyone but ourselves, but we
are not going to stop. Next time we will come back stronger because now we have
decided to change, to hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">BEST “NEW” AFRICAN
POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
has 78 poets from 23 African countries and the diasporas in the three
languages; English, French and Portuguese. We decided on these languages to
encourage conversation between almost all of Africa’s children, as every
country in Africa speaks at least one of these. This was our original call. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">BEST “NEW” AFRICAN
POETS 2015: 100 poems, 100 poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are calling for BEST
1-3 poems per poet from Africa (living in Africa) or of African descent
(Diasporas) to be included in BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2015: 100 Poems, 100
Poets Anthology. Poems of any topic, form… but less than 40 lines, must be in
any 3 languages; French, English, and Portuguese. The anthology to be edited by
Tendai Mwanaka and Daniel de Purificacao, is earmarked for publication by
Langaa RPCIG (Cameroon)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deadline for entries
is 15 October, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“New” maybe newness
of form or newness to the genre…, preference will be given to younger poets to
help them grow as poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Entries should be in
one doc, include also your contact information, country of stay or country of
origin and a bio note of not more than 50 words<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are looking at
selecting: English poets- 40 poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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French poets- 30 poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Portuguese poets- 20 poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Guests poets- 10 poets (by invitation only)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately due to
financial constraints we won’t be offering contributors free copies but poets
will benefit immensely from this exposure.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Entries should be
sent to Tendai Mwanaka or Daniel Purificacao on these emails:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:mwanaka@yahoo.com"><i>mwanaka@yahoo.com</i></a><i> or <span class="5yl5">danieljose26@yahoo.com.br</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poets
responded well to our advert! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
wanted to achieve on the perfect, but we settled on the next best. We feel it
is a stranger alternative for we listened to your advice as we progressed and
decided to do away with guest poets, one poem per poet; to open out to the
poets space so that we would have a good sense of each poet, and thus
ultimately African poets. We couldn’t give poets topics because we are not
Africa. We didn’t want to determine what Africa speaks when she speaks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
are grateful to the poets who have poems in this anthology because it is
because of them that we started on this hope, this change. We would also like
to thank poetry organisations who helped us spread the word out which include
among others, <i>Botsotso Arts Link, Pen
South Africa, Tariro of Mabvazuva Magazine, The Zimbabwean Newspaper, Wasafiri
Facebook, JMWW blogs, Cathy’s Comps and Calls, <span style="background: white;">Recours
au Poeme</span>, CRWROPPS (Creative Writing Opportunities List)</i> and other
individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
hope we let each poet speaks to us what Africa speaks when she speaks. It is
now left to the reader to find out that. I hope you will enjoy your journey in
trying to hear the African story(ies) imbued in these poems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">A propos de Poetry Progeria, Osita Kabba
écrit qu'il s'agit d'une métaphore du vieillissement prématuré. </span><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">“Le poème est écrit
d'une perspective d'un jeune garçon (moi-même), obligé de grandir trop vite dû
à l'absence de son père. Pour moi, c'est la norme de mon peuple d'avoir un père
absent et j'espère pouvoir changer cela”. Nous avons choisi le titre <b>d'ANTHOLOGIE DES MEILLEURS NOUVEAUX POETES
AFRICAINS 2015</b> parce que nous avons monté ce projet sans aucune aide. Nous
voulons montrer que sans nos pères, nous pouvons apprendre à grandir et à
changer notre condition comme le dit Osita à la fin de son poème “... et
j'espère pouvoir changer cela”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Rester immobiles, assis, à se plaindre que
nous, les poètes, sommes négligés par les fondations (ce qui est le cas) est
plus facile que de se mobiliser, d'agir et d'essayer de changer cette réalité.
Nous affirmons l'adage “la poésie est une vocation”, même si cela implique une
participation continuelle, tout en évitant de nous transformer en politiciens qui
se plaignent et qui cherchent des excuses
pourquoi les choses ne sont pas comme nous aimerions qu'elles soient. </span><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">C'est pour cette raison que nous avons décidé
de réaliser ce projet, pas à pas. Nous voulons être les premiers à dire que
nous n'attendons de reconnaissance ou d'aide de personne d'autre que de
nous-mêmes. Nous n'allons pas nous arrêter là. Nous allons revenir plus forts
parce que nous avons décidé de changer, d'espérer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">L'ANTHOLOGIE DES MEILLEURS “NOUVEAUX” POETES
AFRICAINS 2015</span></b><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">
a rassemblé 78 poètes de 23 pays africains, en trois langues; l'anglais, le
français et le portugais. Nous avons choisi ces langues pour encourager la
conversation entre la majorité des “enfants” d'Afrique puisque tous les pays
d'Afrique parlent au moins une de ces langues. </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Voilà
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">LES
MEILLEURS NOUVEAUX POÈTES AFRICAINS 2015: 100 poèmes, 100 poètes, APPEL AUX
POÈTES<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nous
cherchons les Meilleurs 1-3 poèmesde chaque poète africain ou d'origine
africaine (Diasporas) que nous allons publié dans une oeuvre appelée BEST “NEW”
AFRICAN POETS 2015: 100 Poems, 100 Poets Anthology. Des poèmes de tout type,
forme … mais moins de 40 lignes, dans une des trois langues : francais, anglais
et portugais. L'anthologie sera assemblée par Tendai Mwanaka et Daniel da
Purificação, et publiée par Langaa RPCIG (Cameroon). Date limite est le 15
OCTOBER, 2015. Du “nouveau“, nouveauté dans la forme ou dans le genre … on
donnera préférence aux poètes jeunes pour soutenir leur ascension comme poètes.
Les poèmes devront être présentés en un document, avec coordonnées personnels,
pays d'origine et une courte biographie de maximum 50 mots. Seront
séléctionnés: poètes anglais : 40; poètes francais : 30; poètes portugais : 20;
poètes invités : 10 (sur invitations seulement). Dû à un manque de financement,
nous ne pourrons pas rémunérer les collaborateurs, mais c'est une opportunité
unique de se faire connaître.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Envoyez
vos travaux à Tendai Mwanaka ou Daniel da Purificação sur les emails suivants:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:mwanaka@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">mwanaka@yahoo.com</span></a></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ou</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:danieljose26@yahoo.com.br">danieljose26@yahoo.com.br</a></span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">On a reçu une réponse
très positive à cet appel! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Nous avons voulu
atteindre la perfection, mais nous nous sommes contentés du “mieux possible”.
C'est une alternative un peu étrange, mais nous avons écouté les conseils de
chacun et nous avons décidé de nous éloigner des poètes invités, un poème par
poète; d'ouvrir l'espace des poètes afin de nous permettre une appréhension
plus complète de chaque poète africain. On ne pouvait pas prédéterminer des
thèmes parce que nous ne sommes pas l'Afrique. Nous ne voulions pas imposer à
l'Afrique ce qu'elle avait à dire quand l'Afrique s'exprime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Nous voulons exprimer
notre gratitude à tous les poètes de cette anthologie puisque c'est eux qui
nous ont donné cet espoir, ce changement. Nous voulons aussi remercier les
organisations de poésie qui nous ont aidés à passer le mot. </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Parmi ces dernières: <i>Botsotso
Arts Link, Pen South Africa, Tariro of Mabva</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">z</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">uva Maga</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">z</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">ine, The </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Z</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">imbabwean Newspaper,
Wasafiri Facebook, JMWW blogs, Cathy’s Comps and Calls, </span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recours au Poeme</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">, CRWROPPS (Creative
Writing Opportunities List)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"> et d'autres
personnes.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">Nous espérons que nous avons laissé la
liberté à chaque poète d'exprimer ce que l'Afrique dit quand elle parle. Nous
laissons maintenant les lecteurs découvrir. En espérant que vous allez prendre
plaisir à écouter l'Afrique à travers ses poèmes imprégnés de son histoire,
nous vous souhaitons bonne lecture!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Introdução<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Poesia Progeria, Osita Kabba escreve uma
metáfora que aborda sobre o envelhecimento prematuro. "O poema foi
descrito por um pequeno Jovem (Eu), tive que amadurecer mais rápido devido a
ausência do meu pai. Eu percebo que é normal no meu povo ter a ausência de um
pai e espero mudar isso." Neste título decidimos apresentar a melhor parte
da Antologia dos Novos Melhores Poetas Africanos 2015. Porque nós começamos
este projecto sem ajuda de ninguém. Estamos a dizer sem nossos pais, nós
queremos aprender a crescer e a mudar as nossas circunstâncias, como a
declaração do Osita sobre seu poema que afirma no final, "... espero poder
mudar isso."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">É mais fácil sentar e reclamar que nós os
poetas somos negligenciados pelo <i>status
quo</i> social (em que francamente, estamos) do que apenas levantar e fazer
algo e tentar mudar o jogo. Afirmamos com o ditado, "a poesia é uma
vocação", assim, significa que temos de focar na participação do dia-a-dia
e evitar a mesma atitude dos políticos que gostam de reclamar e encontrar
desculpas para que as coisas sejam sempre feitas unicamente do jeito deles. Com
essa intenção em mente, decidimos mudar o jogo, um passo de cada vez. Seremos os
primeiros a dizer que não esperamos reconhecimento ou qualquer ajuda de ninguém
além de nós mesmos, mas não vamos parar. Da próxima vez vamos voltar mais
fortes porque agora nós decidimos mudar, para a esperança.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Antologia dos Novos Melhores Poetas Africanos
2015 tem 78 poetas de 23 países da África e na diáspora em três línguas;
Inglês, francês e Português. Decidimos estes idiomas para intensificar a
conversação entre quase todas as crianças da África, pois cada país africano
fala pelo menos um destes idiomas. Por isso, este foi o nosso apelo original:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">OS MELHORES "NOVOS" POETAS AFRICANOS 2015:
100 POETAS 100 POEMAS<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Estamos a chamar por 1-3 melhores poemas por poeta
africano (vivendo em África ) ou com descendência africana (na Diáspora) para
ser incluído no OS MELHORES "NOVOS" POETAS AFRICANOS 2015: 100 POETAS
100 POEMAS, uma antologia. Os poemas podem ser de qualquer tópico/ assunto,
tendo como forma mais ou menos um máximo de 40 linhas por poema, podem ser em 3
linguas- Françês , Português , e Inglês. A antologia será editada pelo Tendai
Mwanaka e Daniel da Purificação esta será publicada pela editora Langaa RPCIG,
dos Camarões. A última data para entradas é o 15 de Outubro 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Novidade, talvez será a inovação da forma ou
criatividade do genro... A Preferência será dada a poetas mais jovens para
ajudá-los a crescer como poetas... As entradas têm que ser em um documento
anexo, incluindo também a sua informação pessoal, o contacto no país residente
ou pais de origem e uma nota de biografia de não mais de 50 palavras.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Estamos a procurar seleccionar 40 poetas anglófonos,
30 poetas Francófonos, 20 poetas Lusófonos e mais 10 poetas visitantes (só por
convite)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Infelizmente devido a constrangimentos financeiros nós
não vamos oferecer aos contribuentes copias grátis mas os poetas vão beneficiar
imensamente desta exposição e publicidade.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As respostas à esta convocatória devem ser enviadas
para ambos editores Tendai Mwanaka ou Daniel da Purificação por via destes
emails: <a href="mailto:mwanaka@yahoo.com">mwanaka@yahoo.com</a> ou <a href="mailto:danieljose26@yahoo.com.br">danieljose26@yahoo.com.br</a></span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Os Poetas responderam bem ao nosso
anúncio!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nós queríamos alcançar a perfeição,
mas sentimos que é uma alternativa estranha, por ouvir os seus conselhos.
Nós progredimos e decidimos eliminar comentários de poetas, que chegaram a
pedir um poema por poeta; já que se abre o espaço de poetas e por termos o bom
senso de cada poeta, portanto, em última análise, prevaleceu o que é mais
importante: poetas africanos. Nós não poderíamos dar tópicos específicos aos
poetas porque nós não somos África. Não queríamos determinar como África fala
quando ela fala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Estamos gratos com os poetas que têm
poemas nesta antologia, porque é por causa deles que começamos com esta
esperança, esta mudança. Também gostaríamos de agradecer a organizações de
poesia que nos ajudaram a espalhar a notícia que incluem, entre outros, <i>Link de artes Botsotso, África do Sul de
caneta, Pati de Mabvazuva revista, o jornal do Zimbábue, Wasafiri Facebook,
JMWW blogs, de Cathy Comps e chamadas, Recours au Poéme, CRWROPPS (lista de
oportunidades de escrita criativa)</i> e outras individuais.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nós esperamos que cada poeta nos fale o
que a África fala, quando ela fala. Agora, cabe ao leitor descobrir isso.
Espero que você aprecie sua jornada na tentativa de ouvir histórias africanas
incluídas nestes poemas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mwanakacreativewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790162714293033503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701099141535942597.post-88031885847048182682015-10-23T04:01:00.002-07:002015-10-23T04:01:19.210-07:00BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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