freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too. but biko you said that we blacks are cute but were was bantu going to. why is it that us whose mother tongue is riot are not spoken to. who will feed babies whose first language is spoken word from the gut of the ghetto. one word calls another and that’s the spirit moving but here is the song going to. is it going to rub ambi lotion on the skin and burn it cos whiter than snow it longs to be no more a bantu. will it live in gated rainbows cos soweto is full of batho ba bantso ba rasa it wants to eat ka setu.   this line is a history test freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too.  maybe being blind is the light we want we want to be deaf too.  freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too. please answer true or false or scream if you want to

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Kgafela oa Magogodi was born on December 7, 1968. He is a Kwai-Jazz poet, Spoken Word Theatre Director, film scholar and academic based in the Wits School of Dramatic Arts where he is a part-time lecturer in African Cinema and Oral Performance and Rap/Dub Poetry Studies. Magogodi has presented his work worldwide and remains a prolific producer of poems, short stories, audio recordings and live shows. His poems have been published in Poetry International, Laugh it Off, New Coin, Upbeat Magazine, Homeless Talk and the Journal of African Literature.

Magogodi guest lectured for a couple of semesters at the Mafikeng Campus’s North West University, teaching Literary English.

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-Kgafela ao Magogodi