Nkosiyazi Kan Kanjiri Biography
Nkosiyazi Kan Kanjiri was born in Harare Zimbabwe of a Ndebele mother and Shona father (the two major tribal groups in Zimbabwe) .He went to a number of schools in both Mashonaland and Matebeleland and this he says, was a beneficial experience to him since it helped him have an understanding of the two major tribal cultures of Zimbabwe. Nkosiyazi read English literature, History and Divinity at Dotito High School in Mount Darwin, where he served as the Child Member Of Parliament for Mt Darwin West Constituency. He was the best Zimsec Advanced Level English Literature student in Mt Darwin district in the year 2013. In 2015, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the historical University of Fort Hare in South Africa.
In a distant place
Between the blue mountains,
I see your face as it shines
When the sun rises.
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Is he a fellow with melanin like mine
That bunch of a man sitting on a wheeled chair
Behind that giant oak office table
With a balding head reflecting times we happily buried
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If tears could build a stairway
And memories a lane
I could climb up to heaven
Just to bring you home.
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I stood there
Seeing the sea throwing up to the shore
Rendering the sands vulnerable
Tossing them up and about
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In the sunshine city
The sun still smiles
It shines, the way it shone to the pioneer column when they bumped into granaries of fortune
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