He stood alone in a bullet proof glass box and I thought how in my lifetime, that was once so impossible. He’s half Luo, the child of a single mother, educated in Indonesia, a dope smoking teenager and even left handed. Eat your heart out Selma and Southern Rhodesia!
I was, in these dark days on the home front, going to start this with these lines that I read on the Kubatana website.
. . a mute sadness settles in,
like dust, for the long, long haul. But if
I do not get up and sing,
if I do not get up and dance again,
the savages will win . . .
~Sam Hamill
I didn’t feel much like dancing until the American election restored my faith that the savages will not win. Â
Tears poured down the face of that old firebrand Jesse Jackson as he watched the impressive man whose way he helped to pave. Â
It constantly astonishes me how Zimbabweans keep up their sense of humour:
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