i am that word in red, blue, blk ink mating pen and paper giving birth to seeds that plant, let grow, ravage and fester in your mind. i scribble, dance, twist and swerve across the page in the bloody rage...

poet, writer, director, actor, artist, cultural theorist. “We believe in positive art, theatre of purpose, communal theatre, theatre of survival and liberation” The 1976 Soweto uprising gave impetus to Matsemela Manaka’s career in theatre and the arts. He started out...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"]I’m afraid of “aimer” rejected by the word or disgusted by love Fear of hearing my voice throwing in these two beats “Je t’aime” I feel naked and weak and I hate being weak But I gave “I...

[tabs tab1="Man Forged Manacles" tab2="Speak Freedom" tab3="Speak Freedom" tab4="tab 4"] Man Forged Manacles The definition of black: being of the achromatic colour of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to the absorption of almost all incident of light....

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Love weighs ev’ry word, dissects punctuation and hungers for warm flesh. [tabby title="Poet Bio"]Ulrike Kussing works in the corporate world of supply chain and dabbles in academic writing. She generally gets inspired to write while on the...