2am Transit in Addis by Allan Kolski Horwitz

Ten hours to kill in the gleaming tiled transit lounge long like a hotdog shiny roll spiked with overhanging girders I want to kill these dead hours peel Time nibble Newsweek to find half-naked women tortured in fast cars government...

Found Life by Yoliswa Mogale

I've found life Eternity flows from the depth of the soul divinity lies in her eyes She feeds off me milk of life Feeding in me Milk of the wise She embodies my womb As does she the ocean Humbled...

Dr Capitalism by Zwelethemba Twalo

I am dr capitalism The godfather of isms and schisms I stand for individualism monetarism and westernism Yesterday when I was in a state of primitivism I was then called feudalism no, not thy communalism I robbed Africa with violence,...

Levi’s Generation by Yoliswa Mogale

Child of foetus Enemy of deceivers Make you believers You provide retrievers Reap-assessors Re-posses Truth not scriptures Non-acceptors Non-pleasers Forget givers Mother Teresa Over achievers Live teachers Armies can't defeat us Time turned spectators Eighty-fivers in wait for wealth not...

Give ME Love by Righteous the Common Man

(Cry of a Common Man) give me love, don't gimme sex I've seen too much of that Besides, I don't wanna waste my sweat Gimme strength and the knowledge I need to enhance my consciousness Gimme love so that I...