‘poetry’ Archives
Noliwe By Leopold Sedar Senghor
The weakness of the heart is holly... Ah! You think that I never loved her My Negress fair with palmoil, slender as a plume Thighs of a starlet otter, of Kilimanjaro snow Breasts of mellow rice-fields, hills of acacias under the East Wind. Noliwe with her arms of boas, lips of the adder Noliwe, her eyes were constellations there is no need [...]
Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin
www.otabenga.org A poem linking Israel's December 2008 to January 2009 siege of Gaza to Haiti. First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere, There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians Then their land became known as Hispaniola, As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel Of French overseas possessions Thanks to Africans [...]
The UN Review of the Programme of Action on Racism and Xenophobia
Written by Rene Wadlow In the heated fallout from the from the speech of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN review of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on 20 April 2009, our Association of World Citizens’ Facebook Officer, Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize [...]
