Akwasi Aidoo

I couldn’t help but quickly script a medium between a lyric & an elegy for this beloved "shero" of our times. Adrienne Rich, one of the most influential and widely read writers of the feminist movement, took on sexism and racial oppression in her poems and prose.

This is one sad, but energising, poem I discovered today (by George Chijioke Amadi). Political poems tend to be a bit hackneyed, I've come to conclude, but this is one of the few that make you want to say: ‘Please give me more!’

Dear colleagues,

Yesterday, I decided to go get first-hand experience of what the incessant mass demonstrations in Dakar, Senegal, look like. So I went to town in the afternoon and stayed till about 7.30pm.

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Between them and the War
They forgot the truth of
The pounded mountains into valleys of ash
The widowed woman-child of invisible visage
The thousands disappeared without chemical trace
The ocean-tears of the globe for a people sacrificed without shame