[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Sealing for silence The bones are rumbling inside dark chambers Residing in shelters you cannot see Itching to mouth off misdemeanours of the past But skeletons cannot be fleshed out to tell truths So dark cabinets must...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP!,’ They said, screamed. ‘But we want our heaven, here, on planet Earth Heaven never was for cowed cowards I was born screaming,’ I said, whispered. [tabby title="Poet Bio"]Rolands Nduka Akpe is from Lagos,...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] This lens behind my eye Aborting memory in its embryonic foetus I take it out on this date So this present moment does not become an unwanted future The gifts that are to be cursed in the...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] everything you have ever imagined already is. just pluck it out of the ether curl it up in your fist charge it up with good intent and throw it out to the world. with every fleeting thought...

This edition was conceived during the time of the Secrecy Bill furore. Little did i know that South Africa would be dealing with more issues around censorship, freedom of speech and media control soon. Things were clearer then, the government...