Tribute to Legendary Dedes AND Prolific Poet Dickel.

July winds up to the end with a lot of mixed feelings and our renewed faith against the COVID 19 menace. The world continues to speak out against racial intolerance, warlords, dictatorship and the demise of global peace. Thus, not my real story today. My story is a dedication to great people standing with me in my literary arts activism tribulations. And today, I want to pay my profound tribute to the high ranking, hardworking, selfless literary arts combatants Dr. Michael Dickel from Jerusalem, Israel and the legendary American literary arts curator G Jamie Dedes.  Michael Dickel is a distinguished Poet, internationally renowned author, Accomplished content development consultant and an Acclaimed Scholar with excellent merits in coaching literatures, teaching creative writing and tutoring poetry at highest academic levels. Dickel has since published a mind raving poetry collection, Nothing Remembers. G Jamie Dedes is a seasoned literary arts journal curator, The Poet a day Founding Editor, resilient Campaigner of human rights, Acclaimed trench combatant for social justice. Jamie Dedes honestly campaigned for my safety, protection and upkeep in my times of quandary. She penned passionate and bold letters to international bodies for my safety, recognition and care. She is our 2020 WOMAWORDS POET Laureate, Literary Arts Campaign Partner for the Brave Voices Poetry Journal.  In these difficult times, I send my blessings to both   Poet and Scholar Michael Dickel and Legendary Arts Activist, Curator and Writer G Jamie Dedes. Iam touched by the duo’s passion to collectivity, loyalty to literary arts family, resilience, immense support and artistic maturity in both hard and good times. Dickel and Dedes curates and publishes, The BeZine – an Arts and Humanities online journal. The BeZine Journal enjoys a lot of global readership and genuine following .  I blessed  with  innumerable  she-heroes and heroes standing with me all times. Today, let me   pay a special dedication to these two great international writing and literary arts personalities.  Comrades, your love for peace, for Africa and other cultural communities is immeasurable. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN brings a special profile feature dedicated to two of my international literary art’s revolutionary arts comrades, Michael Dickel and G Jamie Dedes. SALUTATIONS- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).  

Naijaland griot Fubaraibi Anari Benstowe your poetry tastes like PalmWine.

 Nigeria is the land of abundance.  Apart from Kola nut and the legendary palm wine. Nigeria is gifted of riddles, proverbs, dialects, poetry, talents, people, song and dance. Nigeria is a world in one, Nigeria the land of plenty. The Iconic Chinua Achebe was born and bred in Naijaland. Internationally acclaimed African griot Soyinka was breast fed and raised in this land of plenty. If you throw a pebble into the main streets of Naijaland, you either hit poet, a lyricist, an artist, a filmmaker, a writer or at most a professor if not a griot. Today our poetic sling hit on the one hardworking, creatively modified, excellent fast rising poet, FUBARAIBI ANARI BENSTOWE-( Blurb by  Mbizo CHIRASHA)

Jerusha wields her Poetic Scythe to expose Societal Decadence.

Her skull digging reflections turn mental tables upside down. She has discovered her on literary style like a gold mine- prosaic poetry. Stories tucked in her golden verses are told with the rhythmic precision of a sculptor and they are carved wittingly not for just for the pleasure of the reader but to usher positive change, meaning and dialogue among the living. Jerusha is a bold word-slinger wielding up her poetic scythe to bravely weed out human vagaries, savagery, earthly sorrows and societal decadence. Her narrative poems are didactic and they carry a glow of moral lessons on humanity and society. When you reading Jerushas poetry, you are like watching your life and other lives in a mirror of irony, satire and vivid imagery. Her poetic storytelling is intriguing and vivid. Another rich ingredient in her poetry is simplicity as it is thus concocted with reason, awareness and meaning. Superb. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN values truth, reason, creativity and inclusivity. We are proud to present an accomplished educationist, acclaimed poet, a resilient literary arts projects curator. Author of a great poetry collection, Echoes of Military Souls, KANANUH JERUSHA- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Geraldine Sinyuy masters the Art of Confessional Poetry

Her poetry brush strokes on human heart like a feather fanning away death from humanity. She speaks of life and speaks to life. The Poet has mastered the art of confessional poetry.  Verses are fervently stewed deep inside the sizzling pots of her heart.  I suppose her spitting out of these life – hardened verses off her heart -pot is like swallowing paracetamol or vomiting bile to heal the heartaches and pain-aches within. Confessional poetry is usually emotional, bold and painful, verses explode from soul chambers like a bursting wound. Such is life and it is the responsibility of poets to speak honesty, truth and promise to the world that read our poetry. Iam seduced to continuously read these painful poems for they are synonymous lives and experiences of many us have survived.  Sometimes reading your pains, your loss and   tough experiences written in pages by fellow writers, heals the clogged mind and relieves burdened soul. And  then gives  hope that you the reader and writer have all  experienced similar tribulations, so if the writer of  such is still writing and over marching over bridges of dilemma, why not  walk along the rope  of the wind and raise your head above  the storm to defeat traumas of life . Poetry remains our soul bread and poems are spiritual refreshments. We are proud here at AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN to publish, profile and feature this   acclaimed educationist, accomplished scholar, distinguished poet and a multi-talented human GERALDINE SINYUY- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA)

Chitungwiza Poet Waison reVolutionizes Poetry of Defiance.

TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON is an internationally renowned Zimbabwean Poet. The rising Poet is determined, resilient and bold. Peoples Poet popularly famed as    LowlifeDiarist or simply Tynoe Wilson  is an  underground Pen-Slinger and a  brave guerrilla poet  chronicling peripheral gutter lifestyles in his  ramshackle  dormitory township of Chitungwiza  some few miles from the  penury shrunken  ,frail shadow and cartels gripped  Sunshine City  .The poet vividly capture , images of  wretchedness, sighs of hopelessness  ,  ragged ,rat hovel -living conditions as  lived  by his hunger beaten ghetto community sustaining  their bellies with one scanty meal a day, maybe  a crust of stale of bread and a gulp of   chlorine- deficient tap water, enduring years of water woes and typhoid bouts.  His poetry mirrors of a country   haunted by political decadence, drained by economic diarrhea, a people groaning under leadership discord and a society suffocating under the heavy stink of moral rot.  TINOTENDA WAISON is a well-traveled poet, international published, a fast-rising editor and literary arts projects Curator. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN presents to you beloved readers, a bold wordsmith, a guerrilla poet and a fast-rising Social Justice griot, TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Amanda Ranganawa is Our Zimbabwean Pen Princess.

AMANDA RANGANAWA is a highly spirited wordsmith and a rising poet in Zimbabwe. AMANDA carries with her the power of the voice and her talent- laced blood stream flow the wealth of artistry and her DNA is WORDS carved and glued into her bone and marrow during her sacred nine-month revolution in those holy terrains before her earth day. The higher power blessed the resilient bookaholic, mesmerizing workaholic and prolific wordsmith with the golden gift of resilience, goal getting and boldness. Her poetic vibe is not short of African pride, tragedies of life and confessional versifications. Her poetry renditions are mind blowing dramatic monologues, the reader is wowed as he or she imbibes the diligently concocted poetry beverage. The poet speaks to her inner self, speaks to crude and serene human within self. Her poem MY PAST IS OVER is somewhat confessional though thoroughly didactic, as she slings her pen with to teach, to counsel and to rebuke self and her contemporaries. A stream of consciousness. And again, the poem, MY PAST IS OVER is an intriguing historical reference in both presentation and meaning. It is a symbol of transfiguration, if not a ray of repentance. It is a biblical allusion. Remember the biblical story of Saul later Paul on his way to Damascus. CAPTIVATING. The Pen Princess winds up her page poetry performance by celebrating Joys of womanhood, life and African beauty. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN found her poesy fit to be profiled, featured and archived on their digital thicket for the benefit of Zimbabwean, African and global audience. Welcome African Pen Princess, AMANDA RANGANAWA to the CARAVAN of Versifiers, Wordsmith and Pens lingers- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Ugandan Poet AWADIFO weaves a bold Verse for Africa.

Rising Ugandan Poet AWADIFO OLGA KILI weaves beautiful verse on Africa and Africaness. Her poetry cultivates a sense of belonging to Africanity famished minds crudely seduced by paradoxical rays of modernity, duped by the rainbow glow of cosmetic revolutions and raved by the new wave hot gossip media. The griot in her slings weaving needle to patch the broken hips of Africa, whose diamond is plundered by rotten to core corrupt political pundits and cartels stinking economic Tsars. Awadifo sings of the beautiful Africa of yesterday, Africa of today groaning in the grief of loss and the pain. And then Africa that can be restored, the poet is bold to point on the both tragedies and beauties of Africa of all our times. Kili is a pan Africanist, a and an optimist with a deep pit belly belief and fervent passion that African can be restored to its golden ages again, to be a war-less, peaceful, rich, beautiful and bold Africa. Awadifo is Currently a student of Law. An Award-winning Author A fast rising poet and Advocate of the girlchild. Awadifo is our Young Women representative and WOMAWORDS Associate in Uganda. Let the African Poetess Speak- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA)

NGAM EMMANUEL , an African Poet Extraodinaire.

When genius is concocted with talent, prowess and resilience, the resultant is usually legendary.  NGAM EMMANUEL writes bone shattering verses, spine chilling poesy. His poetry is a resilient shoot- out heist to the victims of identity crisis, to instigators of racial slur and to imbeciles vomiting slogan snort and politically poisoned propaganda on our once clean mats of freedom. The pen slinger spews ridicule and hard rock granite truth to double bellied economic pundits and morally decadent pseudo revolutionaries urinating   wars, abject poverty and hunger on this once beautiful earth God has created to be a habitat for all. I am wowed by the dexterity in the dictionary. Likewise, Iam blown away by the prowess of reason within every verse of this poetic gem. Ngam Emmanuel is an African poet, a practicing   English Teacher and Literary Arts Activist born and bred in Cameroon. Let the African speak truth to Cameroon, to Africa and the entire world. NGAM is   currently the Brave Voices Poetry Journal Associate in Cameroon. Emmanuel has stood with our literary arts activism project since the inception of the Zimbabwe We WANT Poetry Campaign, Brave Voices Poetry Journal and the TIME OF THE POET REPUBLIC. Today, AFRICAN WRITERS CARAVAN features the writings of the poet extraordinaire, Cameroonian NGAM EMMANUEL Aluta Continua – (Blurb Mbizo CHIRASHA).