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Book Review by Pule Lechesa
Book: Bo naka di maripa
Author: TSELISO MASOLANE
The multi-faceted Sesotho Literary Museum Curator, Tseliso Masolane has published his scintillating Sesotho poetry anthology titled; Bo naka di maripa equally translated in English as Life is rigmarole.
It is discernible that the title of the book is quite apposite and prudently chosen as Masolane’s poems chronicle many facets of life’s complexities. It can be rightly regarded as a must read, a page-turner, coherent, didactic and thought-provoking to boot.
I want to briefly draw readers’ attention to one of such thought-provoking and morally charging poems which is Kgowanatshwana, meaning in street lingo a “Coconut.” In this poem the poet laments the manner in which some blacks now raise their children, allowing them to behave like disrespectful euro-centric children. The first stanza reads thus in Sesotho:
KGOWANA
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In the mid-90s, while studying at the University of the Western Cape (UWC)—which students of my generation and other comrades often called the University of the Left—I was enrolled in a Psychology course. During my second year, one of the modules I took was Social Psychology, taught by Mr. Umesh Bawa, a Clinical Psychologist.
At our first lecture, Umesh handed out a course reader that included chapters from Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, a Martinique-born philosopher and psychiatrist. This seminal work, first published in French in 1952 and then in English in 1967, profoundly impacted me when I started reading it a few days later in the UWC Study Hall below the Main Library on a Friday afternoon.
Black Skin, White Masks delves into the psychological effects of colonialism on Black people and explores the complexities of race and identity. It discusses how colonialism dehumanizes both the colonised and the colonisers. Reading these sections of Black Ski • This study examined spoken word poems from a Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view. Chapter one fryst vatten the introductory chapter which gives a general overview of the study. It defines the background of the study, the statement of the problem and outlines the research objectives. The chapter also explains the significance of the study, delineates the study's delimitations and finally, gives the definition of key terms. Chapter two provides an extended literature review. It gives an overview of literature that fryst vatten significant to one's comprehension of spoken word and its natur. The chapter also examines previous studies and how they are related to the current investigation. A review of previous studies enabled the researcher to discover the gap in the field of spoken word poetry. The key aspects of this investigation which are spoken word, performance poe
A functional linguistics analysis of representative Namibian poems from the spoken word
INTRODUCTION
Introduction