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Recent Articles about Southern Africa Culture"Fuck 2010" - Soccer for the People, Not for Profit Aug 07 09 Mutual Aid: An Anarchist Concept at Work in Southern Africa Apr 07 09 MAKE SOME NOISE! - A Concert For Freedom In Zimbabwe Mar 24 09 Struggle Poetry from Zimbabwe southern africa |
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 Wednesday April 08, 2009 14:26 by She Govanwa - Toyi Toyi Artz Kollektive toyitoyi at riseup dot net
 Two radical poems recently published by the Toyi Toyi Artz Kollektive, Zimbabwe. Raise Your FistIf you are warrior Raise Your Fist High!Are you a warrior Raise Your Fist! A Bobo lion Babylon won’t give me a visa Coz I’m a toyitoyi teacher, pro-zapatista Anti-capitalista, I’m the counter-culture I’m rooted in the spirit like a Shona sculpture Refuse to lose, used, fused to propaganda X on the ballot so we struggle no longer The shit-stem keeps on coming on stronger Uncle bob, uncle sam Or another uncle tom, We remain the same Poor and we’re unemployed A black president, a woman head of state Another window dresser seals the working-class fate The democratic right to choose a new slave-master Cosmetic changes make the slave work faster So until the power is in the hands of the people I’ll be in the streets chanting change still a rebel I’ll be in the streets chanting change still a rebel If you are warrior Raise Your Fist High! Are you a warrior Raise Your Fist High! BallisticIt’s the anti-capitalistic, anarchisticActivists gone ballistic It’s the anti-capitalistic, anarchistic Activists gone ballistic We represent the seven principles of kwanza Toyitoyi is back it’s the lyrical bonanza Babylon is searching me looking for the ganja We are down on the wheels working on a tyre puncture She Govanwa G.O.D.obori n’ Fati Kwako Watching ghetto people scatter-fear of the po-po Domain of the pharaohs is Fio-it’s the ghetto Salads can’t come thru the section-it’s a no go We have anarchist flags flying on the logo In a land ready-made for bhinghi n’ the bobo The tyre on the wheel plunges into the pot-hole Watch me deal with the snitch - smack him with a bottle We are writing on the wall, so I’m pressing on the nozzle It’s letters that I’m good at- working in the dojo But nowadays is hard coz the paints will cost you more dough So they shoplift, liberate them from your top store It’s the anti-capitalistic, anarchistic Activists gone ballistic It’s the anti-capitalistic, anarchistic Activists gone ballistic
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