Ndeipi!
My words haven’t touched this blog for a while. I’ve been travelling and trouble-making, partying and protesting. I’m in the UK at the moment where I’ve been networking with movements here about the struggle back in Zim while at the same time I’ve been ripping the mic as usual. I’ve had some fire performances in London at the Get Up Stand Up Festival, in Brighton at the Hammer and Tongues Night and for all of those of you in London this weekend you have to make it to Zim Fest. At this 4000-person event I’m gonna be doing poetry workshops and some fire performances while at the same time there’ll be performances by Chiwoniso, Thabani and many other Zim artists. So don’t miss ZimFest @ Raynes Park this Saturday the 1st of September. See www.wezimbabwe.org for more info. And I’ll see you when words become fire!
For those of you who didn't see it my raucous words have also been ripping it on the British corporate media. A few weeks back there was a feature by the popular programme, BBC Newsnight, on the Book Cafe, Harare's alternative cultural space. There's a good focus on the House of Hunger Poetry Slam, the rebellious poetry slam we started 2 years ago. And yours truly features in interviews with comments and revoultionary poetry. Also featuring the powerful Chiwoniso, Godobori and others.. To watch it online see the following link (you can watch from beginning or fast forward to after 7 min 18 seconds into the feature to cut to the nitty gritty): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6935608.stm
This is my latest blog... for more info see my site @ www.comradefatso.com... and to watch and listen to my poetry click on the poetry section... to check the blogs click on the blog section. I encourage all of you to check out the site cause it's looking like fire now!
Fire and Love,
Farai
