May 2004 • Issue 367



Create

Create create
create in mind create in muscle create in nerve
create in man create in the masses
create
create with dry eyes

create create
over the profanation of the forest
over the brazen fortress of the whip
create over the perfume of sawn trunks
create
create with dry eyes

create create
bursts of laughter over the derision of the palmatoria
courage in the tips of the planter’s boots
strength in the splintering of battered-in doors
firmness in the red blood of insecurity
create
create with dry eyes

create create
stars over the warrior’s
sledgehammer
peace over children’s weeping
peace over sweat over the tears of contract labour
peace over hatred
create
create peace with dry eyes

create create
create freedom in the slave stars
manacles of love on the paganized paths of love
festive sounds over swinging bodies on the simulated gallows

Create
create love with dry eyes.

  • The NI described Agostinho Neto in 1988 as ‘the quintessential example of the poet as revolutionary, spinning his dreams and inspirational calls to arms from inside prison cells and given the chance to turn imagination into reality as the first President of independent Angola’.

Agostinho Neto,* Angola
‘Create’ from Sacred Hope by Agostinho Neto, Tanzania Publishing House




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3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
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