- You seen dem southafrican okies. Yes the ragged backdrop of dusty people crowded in informal housing . Look at them when at lunch hour they watch your shuffling feet towards eating places in the 'I will survive look' . Watch them when they cuddle their sick in bony embraces you would think that would heal. Stare at them when the hollow eyes of their kids question existence while tummies play tom-toms Then ask them why they come . Then tell them to go back like you did white men . Yes that is the right thing to do . Then see if your household will eat . Ha, they gone but still the prices inflate still the mines exploit still the politician promises. By god dem okies cant ta…

- I aint writing to no poor masses, and wont fool myself to think so. For God's sake am writing in the internet, in English an i know all them poor guys just walking in the streets with no money to surf or are illiterate. Am writing to petty bourgeoisie, ostentatious cripples to elites and straightly to the middle class. They know it the few capitalist rich , the know that doom has come of their lust, they know that the masses will starve and in their hungry anger will revolt against them. They saw it in Senegal Panama Kenya Cameroon Somalia, and they see that across the borders continents poor people are fighting one battle. Poor people are uniting, poor people don’t want…

- A Tale of Two Fools Two fools smoking cigarettes; one rich, the other poor. “What a strong smell, which cigarette is that?” the rich one asks. “I smoke Supermatch,” the poor brother coughs. “Why can’t you people smoke nice cigarettes like Embassy or Dunhill!” retorts the privileged one. It’s like telling a brother: Why are you hanging yourself with a sisal rope when you can do it with a velvet rope or even a leather one! We are ostracized even in our own suicides. Otiato Opali.

- “They say you mustn’t use it you mustn’t use it coz it will make you rebel… against what!?” Bob Marley. Rebel against the lies. That one should have a whole lake to himself when a million of us scramble for a puddle. Not that he will use all the water in the lake, not that he needs all the water in the lake and not that we don’t need the water in the lake. But that he is ‘hard working’. He works so hard so that he can have a whole lake to himself while others scramble for a puddle. That is how success is measured. Your ability to take what you don’t need from those who direly need it. To tell the people that I have what you want t…

- When I finally merge with opulence Drinking expensive wines Buying her expensive gifts Dispensing thirty pieces of silver To bait young pointed breasts, Will I forget about us? This was supposed to be a poem about us, With our outstretched hands, begging With our sunken eyes, despairing With our rumbling stomachs, hungering. Instead, it’s an empty poem A poem about our emptiness The lie that is the reality we live. As I work hard, I dream harder Of driving my wife around Taking my girlfriends to Hiltons And taking my children to academies When that day comes Will I forget about us? Of our wives under burdens of stale merchandise Trekking to markets full of…

- Prostitution is the one profession that has been painted in a bad light for so long by people who have gained most from it. These are none other than the women whose men indulge in the business. Am serious! For reasons that am about to highlight, women will be happier if they imagined their husbands with prostitutes than with anyone else because there has to be someone all the same. Though I will refer to the profession as ‘prostitution’ and the professionals as ‘prostitutes’ herein, it’s for convenience purposes only. I personally don’t like these references, they sound demeaning to say the least. Nowadays, secretaries are referred to as administrativ…

- The Nation Television (NTV) in Kenya recently aired a section of Professor Ali Mazrui’s Documentary Film The African, A triple Heritage. The section entitled ‘Tools of Exploitation’ tells the story of Africans as inhabitants of Africa, and of Africans as those whose heritage and culture stem from Africa though slavery robbed them of this heritage. Watching the documentary, one can’t help but admire with awe the depth of knowledge that Mazrui commands and the eloquent way with which he renders it in the documentary film. Produced in 1986, the film has nine sixty-minute sections in the documentary series. The triple heritage in the film refers to the three main cultu…