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I wrote this for all African people- All African people struggling with identity, post-colonialism, colonialism, after effects of slavery

— Barolong Seboni

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Literature is the highest form of civilization.

When you write a poem, you are not writing to say I want to “disturb the peace.” You are saying, ‘This is wrong.

I love my beautiful black people
for being black in the wash of whiteness.

I love my black people
from all four corners of this round earth.

Botswana is that place that is not out of the norm in terms of what Africa is, but a place that has the greatest potential to show the world that Africa is possible.

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