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The Butterfly effect is a poem I wrote when thinking about how to reconcile personal loss in the context of a world with a very harsh past & present. The butterfly represents the beauty, frailty and fluidity of life. I wonder to what extent little moments of the reflection on Earth's beauty have in creating the turbulence of today. Indeed even the flutter of the tiniest wings can swell to the chaos of a hurricane. 

The Butterfly Effect

Hakim's Twas the Night Before Christmas is a twist on a classic poem presenting conflicting imagery to challenge how we think about the Festive Season & to provoke an awareness for what is often fogged by the commercial celebrations of the festive season.

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Hyperreality in the colonised world

Whoever Thought an African Thought? 

Is a reading of a provocative essay I wrote juxtaposing the many sides of those who claim the identity. Holding up a mirror the concept of "African Thought". Showing it's absurdity in purity but also invoking it's purpose.

Whoever Thought an African Thought?

Militance is a self reflective poem, written and spoken to reflect the futility and necessity of militant attitudes in the face of injustice.  

Militance

Singing in the Archie Mafeje room, in Bremner Building at the University of Cape Town during an address by the Black Academic staff of the University of Cape Town. 

UCT Rhodes Must Fall: Black Academics arrive

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