Easy like sunshine/Own it like Summer

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in-between love: love for sale: part ii

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i didn’t always believe the brown of her body the way i should have. i’d always assumed that melanin carried things with it - stories, history, maps, boundaries, even the soft of the sun. that somehow you could measure it and measure meaning. that somehow her skin would be an earth of…

Hana does this thing where she writes my life, see? All this.

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afrocentrico: Ben Enwonwu Style It is the very liquid soul That oozes from these pores To light the sidewalks with our magic Beyond the distant shores It is the joy from which the laughter Of the dying is drawn Style is the essence of my people We walk tall in every creed and shape And language known to man We walk tall and touch the Gods With every step upon this land We walk tall into our futures Burning our memories into the sand Because style is in the bodies of my people And when we move to any groove We shake the Earth around the sun Ask for the tricks that dip our hips We’ll tell you rhythm makes blood run Back to the source African booties know the answers And when I’m done I’ll tell you Style is in the movement of my people … But we know the force that rules the world Derives its power from our dance When my people express their beauty The whole world goes into a trance When we create we shape the planet It’s only through voice that we have a chance Because style is in the music of my people So wear your colours with pride Sing your spirits unplugged We’ll use the hands that built our art To build ourselves with love Always remember that you carry your style in your blood Because style is in the survival of my people - Lebo Mashile

afrocentrico:

Ben Enwonwu

Style It is the very liquid soul That oozes from these pores To light the sidewalks with our magic Beyond the distant shores It is the joy from which the laughter Of the dying is drawn Style is the essence of my people We walk tall in every creed and shape And language known to man We walk tall and touch the Gods With every step upon this land We walk tall into our futures Burning our memories into the sand Because style is in the bodies of my people And when we move to any groove We shake the Earth around the sun Ask for the tricks that dip our hips We’ll tell you rhythm makes blood run Back to the source African booties know the answers And when I’m done I’ll tell you Style is in the movement of my people … But we know the force that rules the world Derives its power from our dance When my people express their beauty The whole world goes into a trance When we create we shape the planet It’s only through voice that we have a chance Because style is in the music of my people So wear your colours with pride Sing your spirits unplugged We’ll use the hands that built our art To build ourselves with love Always remember that you carry your style in your blood Because style is in the survival of my people - Lebo Mashile

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Okay, beautiful Cape Town. It’s called Power Tree and You+Me+Everyone We Know have a date in a few days. Honoured and excited. I’ll be sharing the stage with three fire-bearing women: Jacqui, Omnyama & Vangile  Tshepang, the DOPE drummer from your favourite band, the BLK JKS will be spinning tunes (quite looking forward to this part) There will be an Open Mic from 6pm until the show starts at 7pm (you KNOW you wanna) It’s only R50/ 11 Bree Street at iBuyambo/ Sunday, 20th May It’s my first time performing out of my beloved Jo’burg, so…  Please let me see your gorgeous faces? In the name of poetry & possibility Love, lovers.

Okay, beautiful Cape Town. It’s called Power Tree and You+Me+Everyone We Know have a date in a few days.

  • Honoured and excited. I’ll be sharing the stage with three fire-bearing women: Jacqui, Omnyama & Vangile 
  • Tshepang, the DOPE drummer from your favourite band, the BLK JKS will be spinning tunes (quite looking forward to this part)
  • There will be an Open Mic from 6pm until the show starts at 7pm (you KNOW you wanna)
  • It’s only R50/ 11 Bree Street at iBuyambo/ Sunday, 20th May
  • It’s my first time performing out of my beloved Jo’burg, so…

 Please let me see your gorgeous faces?

In the name of poetry & possibility

Love, lovers.

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Blood. ourafrica: The young Ndebele girl wears bead rolls and a tasseled apron that she will discard when she is initiated into adulthood. The Ndebele people are Bantu speakers who spread all over Africa from the area of present day Cameroon in a centuries’ long migration, made possible by their agricultural and iron technology. The Ndebele live in present-day South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Blood.

ourafrica:

The young Ndebele girl wears bead rolls and a tasseled apron that she will discard when she is initiated into adulthood. The Ndebele people are Bantu speakers who spread all over Africa from the area of present day Cameroon in a centuries’ long migration, made possible by their agricultural and iron technology. The Ndebele live in present-day South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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