9 November, 2013

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Rhythmic Elements: The Offering Charles Johnson: Middle Passage “‘The problem is all inside your head’ she said to me, ‘The answer is easy if you take it logically, I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free.'”
— Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

2 November, 2013

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Ale Farka Toure: Niafunken Luli Callinicos: Who Built Jozi “A baboon can’t see his own forehead, he can only see the forehead of another”      – a siSwati saying which means you can’t see your own mistakes, only those of others

12 October, 2013

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Amadou & Mariam: Sou Ni Tilé Junto Diaz: Drown “U nga dlayi nyoka u yi ndzuluta, ta micele ta ku vona” (Do not kill a snake a swing it, the ones inside the hole are watching you)
– a traditional Tsonga saying

24 March, 2013

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“A dog has four feet, but chooses one road.  A woman has only two legs, but finds herself running down ten roads at once.”
– A perhaps sexist Congolese saying about fly women chasing men.

16 August, 2012

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“They say everything can be replaced, they say every distance is not near.  So I remember every face, of every man who put me here.”
– Nina Simone,  “I Shall be Released”