Thursday, January 1, 2004

To The Diaspora Comments

Rating: 3.6

you did not know you were Afrika

When you set out for Afrika
you did not know you were going.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Madathil Rajendran Nair 14 March 2015

you did not know you were Afrika. You did not know the Black continent that had to be reached was you The soul of this superb poem lies hidden in these lines!

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Edgar Stevens 14 March 2015

this is one nice poem..I would recommen it to anyone...

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Malini Kadir 02 March 2008

impressive write....patriotic!

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Kennedy Sagwa 06 February 2007

It's impressive that you used the Swahili name of Africa - Afrika! It sounded very African and did a lot of good to emphasise on the Black continent, there was no mistaking it for anything else. Thanks, Ken Sagwa

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