SYSTEMIC RACISM
BLACK PEOPLE’S FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION? If it is systemic it is broad based according to its time, space, and driving forces. It is enduring. It is transgenerational. It is endemic. It is prolific....
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CONSPIRACY THEORIES: TO BE OR NOT TO BE SUSCEPTIBLE
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE From the outset, our physical and physiological attributes as humans are coded in our DNA. Our unique individual manifestations of our conscious and unconscious socio-cultural...
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DOCTORS OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES
KNOW THY DOCTOR ©Simon Chilembo 2020 From a societal existential, functional, and progress contributary perspective, we become what we become and do what we do out of an interplay of various constant...
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THE 500K CASE – A Poem
PANDEMIC FATALITIES This year 2021 I’ll hit My second life 500 000 kroners Fortune mark Beyond which I’ll stop counting As the zeros grow’n’grow I’ll start kicking creditors In the butt Big Daddy Mr...
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ALL IN THE HANDS
The Hands Know It’s all in my hands I see her Call her Stella ©Simon Chilembo 2021 I clasp the hands To feel the mutual pull Of the palm middles Pulsating onto each other I get to feel Balance of The...
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COLOUR OF MY SKIN – A Poem
AS IS COLOUR OF MY SKIN I AM I’m ‘y skin colourI waste no lightYou see no colourYou’re out of sight Light shines through youYourCondescendenceIgnoranceInsensitivitySuperficialityUbiquitous I walkMy...
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I REFUSE – A Poem
Fairytales in My World Must I look awayFrom childrenIn my dailyLiving spacesOn 2021 17 MayNorway’s National DayShow-casing tangibleChildren’s worth and joyIn a free world of peaceWhilst other children...
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VREDE
HVA VET JEG Hva vet jegJeg, som du sierEr en primitiv mannPreget av afrikanske jungle kulturDer mennesker spiser hverandreEr jeg da herFor å kannibalisere degGlemm det, mann, sier duHer i riket dittEr...
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TO BOOSTER OR NOT TO BOOSTER
SCIENCE WORKS I didn’t announce my Covid-19 booster jab uptake in the second week of December, 2021. There were more important matters to give priority to at that time. Besides, I’m under no...
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𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜𝗜
ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴇᴅ ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅ ᴏɴ ᴡᴏᴍᴇɴ’ꜱ ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟ ʀᴇᴘʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ ʜᴇᴀʟᴛʜ ʀɪɢʜᴛꜱ I came to the world via South Africa, where I spent the first fourteen-and-half years of my life, June 1960-January 1975. As I get older and...
View ArticleAFRICA SCREWED. AFRICA RAPED.
𝗡𝗢 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗠𝗘𝗡 𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐘, 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐔𝐏𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕? Question asked by confidants, cynics, and the disdainful alike. To the extent that the...
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𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐓?
𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 DISCLAIMER I do not have any academic nor professional training in art. My articulation of what art is a function of my layman’s instinctual appreciation of things beautiful...
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𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄
Reserve Husband in House of Beautiful Things In my Tumbuka tribe in Zambia, a man is his brothers’ wives’ reserve husband. Traditionally, this is an informal but serious involuntary and platonic bond...
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𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐍? Sometime last year, 2022, whilst I was in the middle of working with my latest and nineth book, MACHONA GRIT – Onslaught On Hate, I came across an Instagram reel that caught my...
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𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗡’𝗧 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪
𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗬 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮 I dedicate this presentation here to my late beloved mother, who died five years ago on October 7th, 2018. May her soul continue resting in eternal power. On Monday,...
View ArticleARE CHILDLESS MEN NOT REAL MEN?
Real Men Raise Their Children Ever since my young adulthood years, I have been told to my face, or I’ve heard on various platforms numerous self-righteous people of various persuasions, social...
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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮
𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 I’m ever so fascinated by the USA. At first, it was the illusion of the Dream of America. This Dream of America still lures poor, mostly...
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