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February | 2012 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: February 2012. February 29, 2012 · 9:42 pm. Cupid’s Reflections II: Love and other pains. At Violeta’s insistence I’ve decided to pen something down. A well-deserved admonition, needless to sayit seems so long since I put pen to paper. Seems so long since I lived out loud. Is it my fault for not believing hard enough? At twenty-three I feel very unfulfilled still. No one can understand standing at the smallest spot in the world, which for me was the back of my father’s house by the ...
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My kingdom, my kingdom…. | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Remebering with you: part I. WHY ART: Fifteen Paces →. November 7, 2012 · 8:02 am. My kingdom, my kingdom…. My father gave me my first book. It was titled Kenna, after its eponymous hero, a boy in Gaborone who ran a race and won. I know because I met him at the finish line. Sleepy as it seems it was the beginning. After that it was The Drummer Boy. Then it was For Mbatha and Rebecca. Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw. The man: Hail Sphinx: salutations from Julius Caesar! This is an excerpt on a critic...
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Remebering with you: part I | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Cupid’s Reflections II: Love and other pains. My kingdom, my kingdom…. →. March 8, 2012 · 10:07 pm. Remebering with you: part I. 1 - 2 And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. Anne Frank. Man’s innocence couldn’t survive one bite of the apple. USSR: 61,911,000 murders. Vietnam: 1,678,000 murders.
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January | 2010 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: January 2010. January 25, 2010 · 5:47 pm. At a few breathes past 21, give or take a million, it’s that time of day to decide whether to grow into your mother or no. Whether to aim for the safety net and all that the above does appertain or to just dare. Two roads diverge in yellow wood…. To the dissenting flat-earth men. Seeking completeness in the round. Let’s try to save the world and fail and then try to save ourselves. Let’s pray to God for a good God. Let’s try to mould our childre...
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March | 2012 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: March 2012. March 8, 2012 · 10:07 pm. Remebering with you: part I. 1 - 2 And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. Anne Frank. Man’s innocence couldn’t survive one bite of the apple. Century. The Soviet Union alone could claim 55 million of these. USSR: 61,911,000 murders. Why do I b...
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POETIC REASONS | Bintiafrica's Blog
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CAREFUL CONFESSIONS →. October 27, 2011 · 9:28 am. What in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails wrinkle, makes you want to do this or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss is forever shared and forever your own. Body of a woman, white hills,. You look like a world lying in surrender,. My rough peasant’s body digs. And makes the son leap from the depths of the earth. Body of a woman, I sonnet. Here I love you. Here I love you.
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December | 2009 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: December 2009. December 1, 2009 · 1:07 pm. ANIMISM AND THE GREEN AGENDA. Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. Ancient Indian Proverb. The Mau imbroglio is for me a primal cry for a return to the old ways. A native call by the land for due reverence. And the most authentic shout for a return to our animistic values. Subdue and conquer the earth’.
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August | 2010 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: August 2010. August 16, 2010 · 1:20 pm. WHAT JOHNSON MAINA MEANS TO ME. Johnson Maina. Familiar? Probably not. It may help if you sound it out. But it won’t. Shot dead at seventy on the 17. On Waiyaki way. You mustn’t remember. It’s okay, I didn’t either. He was shot in front of his daughter and they let him bleed out. Please say his name. We’ll say it together so that we don’t forget. What does it mean to make something of life? Life is bigger than us. Posterity will study us in aw...
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October | 2011 | Bintiafrica's Blog
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Monthly Archives: October 2011. October 30, 2011 · 10:04 pm. I tried my hand at a story writing contest for a national short story contestKwani eat your heart out! Loneliness, he replied with a disaffected shrug; as much dis-affectation as a fifty-one-year old priest could manage. But it was too simplistic, true but simplistic. It was loneliness unlike any other he had read of before. It was more than haunting, worse than abject. The weather made him pensive. He hated that too. Albert Duma had called to ...
