“I salute all [immigrants] immigrant children of the world throughout the ages. Gratitude and pride to [immigrants]… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4 days ago
SPECIAL NOTE: Link takes us to an article written by a frustrated young lady in Oslo, Norway, who feels she has no place to call home anywhere. Although my writing below may sound harsh, it is not personal. I am writing on the subject in general terms at her inspiration, from my, of course, highly subjective point of view. Believe me, I feel her pain, anger, and sorrow. I am a citizen of the world is another one of those idealistic statements of which poetry and literature are inspired. I am a citizen of the world as an emotional statement reeks of arrogance, ignorance, naiveté, self-centredness, patronization, and imperialistic tendencies. You don’t go calling yourself citizen of the world simply because you don’t feel at home in your country of birth, and/ or your host country if you are an exile in the Diaspora. It’s not up to you to declare yourself a world citizen, as if the world owes you any favours, to begin with …(Continued in the book: “MACHONA AWAKENING – home in grey matter”. Order book on Amazon’s CreateSpace here).
Simon Chilembo Riebeeckstad Welkom South Africa December 15, 2014
Divide and Conquer Necro-Power Games South Africa Has Afro-Xenophobia lynching squadsEliminating their kindred Off the streets of the landEven the soil of the land Won’t…
PEAK PERFORMANCE TOOL 1986 shall remain an exceptionally memorable year for me. That is because: I finally became a university graduate with a cool BA…
REMEMBERING A WARRIOR GRANDMASTER: JAMES BONAR NOBLE, SENSEI, DECEASED August 11, 2018. SPECIAL NOTES This is a very personal tribute. It’ll describe a special relationship…
I am a citizen of the world is another one of those idealistic statements of which poetry and literature are inspired. I am a citizen of the world as an emotional statement reeks of arrogance, ignorance, naiveté, self-centredness, patronization, and imperialistic tendencies. You don’t go calling yourself citizen of the world simply because you don’t feel at home in your country of birth, and/ or your host country if you are an exile in the Diaspora. It’s not up to you to declare yourself a world citizen, as if the world owes you any favours, to begin with …(Continued in the book: “MACHONA AWAKENING – home in grey matter”. Order book on Amazon’s CreateSpace here).