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    Two Poems by Cheswayo Mphanza

    Sep 08, 2020 2 minutes

    AT DAVID LIVINGSTONE’S STATUE

    for Harry Mphanza

    We have changed a great many of our colonial place names since independence, but we have kept the name of Livingstone out of a deep respect. —Siloka Mukuni, chief of the Leya People

    At the onset of my ingenious plan, the sun barely shonethrough the mist.I struggled with a name to identify the rushesof water pouring beside me.

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