Black, mixed race poet Bessie Head, from South Africa and settled in Botswana.
“Where the Wind Don’t Blow”
My home is a swagger and a shrug
You know:
When you get a smack in the face
And the pain don’t hurt: You are the master…
Sindiwe Magona on Nelson Mandela
Black South African poet, Sindiwe Magona reads her poem The Taste of Change -about Mandela.
She worked as a help, got her secondary school diploma through correspondence, Columbia University later on, worked for the UN.
The Taste of Change
Mandela in jail No milk in my body
Mother at work I hungry
De Klerk free Mandela No milk in my body
Father at work I sick
Mandela meets De Klerk People clap and dance
Rain come through my roof I cold
Change on every lip Father Mother and Me
and Thousands others We die
