Be Grounded with A Sis
We’re somehow here with you and your clock has moved forward. Notice how we have suspended time somehow. How words were here with me then and they’re here with you now. Wiggle your toes. Perhaps a pinky fingertip touches your nose. Perhaps you are within the sound of a lyrical
✨ Lo(st) IN stars ✨
✨ Lo(st) IN stars ✨ poem inspired by, Nas’ storytelling ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ once upon ä time ✨ there was a block named ✨ tré foe ✨ where Butter got shot ✨ over a coupla shoes 👟 ✨ anyone might know ✨ they were those ✨ Js on his feet… ✨ Somethin
Zawadi Ya Maji
Zawadi ya Maji Greetings everyone! Wow! This is an appreciation post! it means, Gift of Water 🌊 Written and recorded while watching the waves pictured. 🙏🏾 Thank you (asante) to all my followers! I just looked up and I had followers on here, so thank you! To hear me read
Long letter to my family on Tanzania
Long letter to my family on Tanzania Familia yangu (my family), Wow Family!! It’s been a while and I miss you all sooo very much! Habari zenu? (How are you all?) Really I don’t know where to start! (I thought of writing most of this in both Kiswahili and Eng.
You are arriving on African soil for the first time in your life.
You’ve just experienced the sky’s daily spectrum as the magnanimous sunset wakes you, flying over Sudan’s desert sands with its burning orange hue filling your window seat. You are here, Tanzania: home of Kilimanjaro — the largest mountain in Africa; land of Swahili’s origin — a language that’s brought great umoja (unity) to people;
Our Mothers and the Motherland
A speech, adapted from June 29th! 2014 Habari Gani? Our Mothers and the Motherland… I think this is an amazing topic. I have had so many mothers — literally — I call most of them Mama. I have my mommy, Barbara E. Evans who was not truly able to independently care after me since
