The Prodigal Blogger

It has been a while since the last time I wrote on this blog or anywhere else for that matter, it has been over two years since I actually wrote on this specific blog. It might be just an old habit that makes me write now, I dont have anything in particular to write, that is why I wonder if this just a habit of bashing at my keyboard aimlessly or its a need that really resides in me

Though the edge to tell you what I have been up to is overwhelming, I will postpone that for now and reacquaint to this environment

For now...Salutations to everyone

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Today the world is celebrating Nelson Mandela's birthday and I thought I should share some history with...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (IPA: /roli'ɬaɬa/) (born 18 July 1918) is the former President of South Africa. He was the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections.
Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage after he went underground and began the ANC's armed struggle. He saw his wife only three times over the next 27 years.

Through his 27 years in prison, much of it spent in a cell on Robben Island, Mandela became the most widely known figure in the struggle against apartheid. Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a cultural icon of freedom and equality.
The apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists, and he became a figure of hatred among many South African whites, supporters of apartheid, and opponents of the ANC.

Following his release from prison in 1990, his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even among white South Africans and former opponents.
Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He is currently a celebrated elder statesman who continues to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.

Sup Word World

Hi Word World

I haven't been writing much except for reports and systems, Banking IT is not for the faint hearted...but Im still here and the word still leaves here...here is a piece of reading I thought I must share with you

The Gods Wrote We are breath of drop of rain
Grain of sea sand in the wind
We are root of baobabFlesh of this soil
Blood of Congo brush elegantAs breast of dark cloudOr milk flowing through the groaning years
We also know Centuries with the taste Of white shit down to the spine
The choice is ours So is the life
The music of our laughter reborn
Tyityimba or boogaloo passion
Of the sun-eyed gods of our blood
Laughs in the nighttime, in the daytime too
And across America vicious citiesClatter to the ground.
Was it notAll written by the gods!Turn the things! I saidLet them things roll
To the rhythm of our movement
Don't you know this is a love supreme!John Coltrane John Coltrane tell the ancestors
We listened we heard your message
Tell them you gave us tracks to move
Trane and now we know
The choice is oursSo is the mind and the matches too
The choice is oursSo is the beginning'We were not made eternally to weep'The choice is oursSo is the need and the want too
The choice is oursSo is the vision of the day
© 2002, Keorapetse Kgositsile From: If I Could SingPublisher: Kwela Publishers, South AfricaISBN: 0-7957-0126-8

The Greatest imperative meme

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world- and never will.- Mark Twain

I started writing between the age of ten and fourteen, at first it was about me crying for my state, and then it evolved to a cry for the state of our nation (Poverty, Political unrest, economic deprivation, etc.)

I’ve always said that writing was a form of an escape pod for me, escaping the harsh realities of this life, the cruelty of apartheid while growing in South Africa, the burdens of being black in South Africa. I needed a platform to be young, black and angry, but as I grew as a writer and spiritual things enthusiast, my writing healed me from scars born in the past. Now that I was healing I had to find a way to heal others and writing became a medium for that

I had to write to save my life and the life of others, in this way writing did become the greatest imperative of my life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

27 APRIL - FREEDOM DAY

In South Africa on this day we celebrate our freedom, it was on this day that in 1994 South Africans of all creed, races and classes participated in the first democratic elections which saw Nelson Mandela being elected first black president in South Africa.
Freedom to a lot of us came at a huge price and thus by right all of us must celebrate our freedom whether be it in writing, singing, crying, ululating and dancing.

Just celebrate your freedom,
well this are men and women who I have deserve a big shout out for our freedom

Jesus
My mom
Nelson Mandela
Malcolm X
Mahtma Ghandi
Martin Luther Jnr

Please share with us who you think deserve a big freedom shout out

RAMBLINGS OF AN ARTIST

Blesseth hands
Revoked minds
Twisted dreams in crumbling tears
Faded pictures of stories told
Dejected concepts
Mind ramblings
Broken paint brushes
Simile, irony, stanzas
Cursed mind boggles
Damned writers block
Broken canvas, missing pages
Broken melodies, uncontained lyrics
I am an artist; I create beauty amidst my craziness

The Interval is dead

After a long interval of not blogging due to some technical problems Im back and Im hoping to post some new material I've been working on...Til then

Stay blessed....