Africa kwenze’njani (Africa what happened to you)

I’m sitting here watching the news, and although I got part of this news bulletin this news story is about somewhere down there at kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa where someone thought of an idea that entails giving girls bursaries based on their virginity
so a girl who is still a virgin will be able to apply and get this bursary but if ever she loses her virginity during the bursary period the bursary will be revoked. And I am sitting here thinking when oh when will this beautiful country of mine learn to stop objectifying girls, stop with the labelling, discriminating, abusing. When will women be allowed the same rights and privacy as men, when will we be free…. I sit here to upset to even write this because all I can think about is how our nation keeps proving itself to not have female right in mind when they think this up, I sit here a black 23 year old South African female disgusted by this idea, upset that it is even being considered. I sit here disappointed at my people I sit here wondering… #lettersOfABlackFemale #SouthAfricanBlues oh khaya lam’ this is not the liberation you promised me #Lemons #Ris

eWarriorsRise #RiseKings

UNITED AGAINST XENOPHOBIA

Black butterfly stands strongly against xenophobia and the recent xenophobic attacks poolthat have plagued south Africa, it is through the willingness to understand each other and be open to individuality that true africanness can be recieved. Let not fear drive the forces of violence, mayibuye iAfrika, we are one. Stop the pain, stop the hate

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“On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”

― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

cry azania cry

CRY AZANIA CRY

Azania, my treasured home

Lady who have given birth to many chidren

I cry for you today

Tears fall from my check.

I watch them hurriedly dripping to the lifeless ground.

They have taken away your spirit

Cry azania cry

Turned you into an empty shell.

So long to the love songs you used to sing,

The migration songs that gave me hope in times of need.

Gone are the beautiful ladies in their bright Sunday bests that used to walk

down to papas store for their daily chats.

What have they done to you Azania?

Azania your veins run red like my heart, as your skin has been tainted dark as the insides of wolves.

You are screaming souls, burning flesh and bodies lying on the streets.

You are girls abducted and cities bombed

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

It has been siux months since the abduction on 219 Nigerian girls, nothing has changed. Do not let their memory fade, don’t forget their story #BringBackOurGirls

Bring back our girls

we have merely achieved the freedom to be free..(so) i dare not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended- Nelson Mandela

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH (28. august.1963)

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips drip

ping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today”