The Voiceless Cry
Nancy Muigei’s ‘very touching poem’ drew record numbers of comments from readers of last week’s issue of Pambazuka News. We share a selection of their responses.
Lovely…sad, the cry that is not heard, yet the effect will never be forgotten.
SOPHIE NGUGI
This is a great poem by a great woman. When I was reading it, I had a feeling I am reading something written by a Bosnian girl, I felt closeness to the words of the poem...Nancy reached my heart, and she will reach hearts of millions with her work, emotions that she is writing about are universal, have no borders, race, ethnicity, or religion. Every human being with a soul is able to see the images in Nancy’s words. Keep on working Nancy, give us images of Africa, and let us realize how close we are in suffering, and hopefully, one day, we will realize we are close in happiness too. Nancy is helping us get there.
VEDRAN VOJINOVIC
A very touching poem indeed! Makes one wonders why we still have to cry 'when will the new dawn rise?' What a powerful poetic follow-up to Patrice Lumumba’s 'Dawn in the Heart of Africa'!
CHAMBI CHACHAGE
It is nice to hear a young person’s voice, advocating for the voiceless through poem.
ANNE AMADI
Wow! This is a wonderful Piece! The voice of the voiceless are maimed and silenced in broad daylight by forces that we pay. God save our country! However, I feel the poem should end on an optimistic note that there is light after all, at the end of the tunnel. Rather than say that the silenced voices of the voiceless will not return, we should be optimistic that as long as the ideals for which these were killed are still held 'sacred', the spirits of these Gallant sons of the land will live with us! God bless our Motherland.
AWUOR PONGE (THE CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY)