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Shivji, Issa G.

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General PoetryGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $16.50

ISBN10: 1988832179
ISBN13: 9781988832173
Publisher: Daraja Press
Published: May 5 2019
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

These poems by Issa Shivji, lawyer, activist and Tanzanian public intellectual, were written at different times in different circumstances. They give vent to personal anguish and political anger. Mostly originally written in Kiswahili, here translated into English by Ida Hadjivayanis, and they are intensely personal and political. The poems are clustered under several headings to provide a context; The first combines personal agony at the loss of comrades and friends with poems about love and affection for living ones. The second is about robberies of freedom, resources, and dignity and the loss of justice under neoliberalism. The third section, entitled Hopes and Fears, comprises short poems tweeted over the last five years expressing despair, fear and hope in the human capacity for freedom. The last section are poems, concerned with Shivji's period in South Africa in 2018, reflect on the emergence of neo-apartheid with its wanton and shameless exploitation of the majority.

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