A few not so ordinary folks
Got busy hanging out
With ‘watu wa kawaida’
In a place as ‘un-kawaida-like’
As Nairobi Safari Club
Big names
A kaleidoscopic mix
Of humanity and every nobody
In pursuit of somebodiness is here
Committed spirits
And invocations of ‘–isms’ reign supreme
Isms of coloniality, of race, of tribe etc
All but the ‘-ism’ of sex feature
Aah!
What a double-speak on liberation
And justice
Equality and camaraderie
And so a fine sister is choked
By tentacles of homophobia
and deformed masculinities
Clothed as patriotism, religiosity, and ‘africanity’
Sadly,
I must leave
For in the spirit of Ubuntu
I too suffocate
© July 2010
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