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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

My Birth

                          By Peter Mapuor—Nairobi, Kenya 
my birth
my birth
My birth
Years of my birth
Marred by civil war
My growth thwarted
Denied legitimacy
With divide-and-rule tactics
Inherited from the colonial era
Identity and ideology
Arab nationalism
And political Islamism
Resulting to undergrowth,
Exclusion and violence
That made me a dwarf
I could not accept being bread basket
To win my own death
Now am tough
Because I have been rough
With a lot of sweat
In order to get sweet sweat
Should I continue being rough
So that I am crashed?
 –
Mapuor can be reached via mapuorcheatdeath1@yahoo.com

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