March 6, 2008

The poem I perfomed for Wole Soyinka

I recently performed a poem for Wole Soyinka, Africas first Nobel Laureate. The poem is about the state of affairs in Kenya following the recent botched Presidential election. Here it is:
And so we danced,
Like over filled balloons, our hearts swelled with uncontainable joy,
And like overfilled balloons, they burst,
Exploding with the thunder, of the dawn of [...]