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Taurai Lovemore Chinyanganya

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Strife

Strife

Strife

Tribal knobkerries
Wheeze in the air
With passionate fury –
Bearers of tribal differences
Stride and threaten.

Hooves of the racist cavalcade clatter.
Cold coughs
Blow chilling breezes
From the smoking muzzles of guns
Trained on the weak and weary.

© 2008, Taurai Lovemore Chinyanganya
Publisher: First published on PIW,

Taurai Lovemore Chinyanganya

Taurai Lovemore Chinyanganya

(Zimbabwe, 1964)

Taurai Lovemore Chinyanganya gained a BA (Hons) in English and a Grad. CE from the University of Zimbabwe, followed by a B.Ed from the University of Cape Town, and most recently an MA LSP from the University of Zimbabwe. He has taught English Language and Literature at various secondary schools, and English and Communication in the Linguistics Department of the University of Zimbabwe. He is cur...

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Tribal knobkerries
Wheeze in the air
With passionate fury –
Bearers of tribal differences
Stride and threaten.

Hooves of the racist cavalcade clatter.
Cold coughs
Blow chilling breezes
From the smoking muzzles of guns
Trained on the weak and weary.

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