metro african ligkaribe

I’m a Bantu girl (likgaribe) of Setswana/ Sotho /Shona descent.. Having grown up in Bulawayo I also have a strong Ndebele heritage. Currently I live in Botswana but a part of me will always be Ndebele. I am of the Mmirwa tribe –, my totem is the Buffalo & just like the Buffalo I am very brave, protective, fierce and dangerous when provoked. I love learning about my African heritage, and that of other people, I believe if you stop learning as a person you might as well roll over and die.

Monday, September 18, 2006

A ligkaribe Love Poem; Days End

Days end
At the end of another long laborious day
and a long awaited meal of groundnuts,
samp and beans
joy of communion and simple things
roasted nuts eaten by the fireside
sharp noise of peanuts being shelled,
dark silhouettes of bodies by the firelight
illuminated in orange glow. crackling of logs,
soothing smell of wood burning, a promise of life
A hum of voices, in contended conversation
of today’s doings and tomorrows hopes
and all manner of trivial things.

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