May the wind guide your flowing and whisper comfort, joy and peace to your spirit. May the gentle smile of the sun gladden your soul and strengthen your beauty. I pray the heavens and earth be your shroud in the passing of darkness, that they cover you with warmth and love. May your spirit rest … Continue reading For The Kind River and Gentle Flower 🙂
Author: Simon Rakei
Returns and Dislocation
“The motif of the African “been-to” as a failed bohemian “revolutionary” appeared earlier in Armah’s Fragments. We remember that in this novel, Baako, unlike other “been-tos” returned home wearing jeans, and carrying a guitar and a typewriter as sole luggage. Right from the beginning, he isolated himself from his community, which reproached him the fact … Continue reading Returns and Dislocation
Protected: Language and Silence: The Memory of Forgetting
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500 Legs of Distance
I imagine Five Hundred Legs of Distance would make for a good book or novel title if I were to write one. But alas, or rather; for the sake of what’s useful as at the time of writing, it will be the title of this piece. The emotional need for human beings to express themselves, … Continue reading 500 Legs of Distance
Adrift Movement; The Dark Light of Children of Hope
Amongst the skies, it was once often rumoured that at the passing of darkness, a tiny, bright – but dark – luminous spark, hidden deep in the belly of the night, would swell into a giant light as it consumed its own surrounding darkness to greet the new day. The day was always harsh and … Continue reading Adrift Movement; The Dark Light of Children of Hope
Protected: Songs between Fathers and Forgotten Dreams
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Decolonising God: Religion, Spirituality and Esotericism as Vehicles for Finding Meaning, Purpose and Paths of Resistance
I wonder, is this the fate of our Nation? I wonder what is wrong with us? Why do we blame creation? How could a god that only creates be the source of devastation? - Akala: The Search, Chapter 1: Knowledge Seeker Balance is a curse to those called by dual extremes. It is standing on … Continue reading Decolonising God: Religion, Spirituality and Esotericism as Vehicles for Finding Meaning, Purpose and Paths of Resistance
For And To Those Who Rebel, and Choose To Resist
In an exchange[1] Between two characters, the first said: There’s a natural order to this world and those who try to upend it do not fair well. The character continued – this movement will never survive if you join them you will be shunned, at best you’ll survive as pariah; to be spat on and … Continue reading For And To Those Who Rebel, and Choose To Resist
Protected: 21 – A Celebration of a Toiling Love through Pain, Suffering and Struggle
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To Dance
Part 1: Of Origins, and Something Eternal Have you ever danced in the first ever chaos of fire and storm? Danced so hard the earth and ground beneath you swelled and grew until it cracked open and rock of gold and white filled up the sky? Have you ever danced with such grace and pain … Continue reading To Dance
Simon Rakei 