Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master

By Sicebise Msengana

Pic: Wikipedia

Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jordon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel
Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice befo

Africa

By Sicebise Msengana

Pic: Achievement.org

Thus she had lain 
sugar cane sweet 
deserts her hair
golden her feet
mountains her breasts
two Niles her tears
Thus she has lain
Black through the years. 

Over the white seas
rime white and cold
brigands ungentled
icicle bold
took her young daughters

Nelson Mandela Rivonia Trial Speech

By Sicebise Msengana

Pic: Dailymail.co.uk

I am the First Accused.

I hold a Bachelor`s Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961.
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did, both as an individual and as a leader of my people, because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

The Greatest Second Class Citizens

By Sicebise Msengana

What wrong with me?
Why cant I see things clearly?
What did I lack in my liberation effort?
Why do I continue to believe things will get a lil betta?
Cause I believe what my master wants me to believe,
which makes me the greatest second class citizen in history!

My people generate over $800 billion in this land.
We have the amerikkkan economy in the palms of our hands.
But instead of investin' where we live-
We continue our naivete and continue to give-
power to Tommy Hillfigga like dumb niggas!
And that crakka can't even stand you or me
Even HE realizes we the greatest second class citizens in history! 

Ancient Ethiopian Rock Churches

By Sicebise Msengana

Lalibela is a town in Ethiopia famous for its rock-cut churches. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum , and a center of worship. Massive eleven rock-hewn churches , each carved out of a single block of granite with its roof at ground level. The current town of Lalibela was known as Roha.

“Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World”: The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

By Sicebise Msengana

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