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Am I just an artist dreaming up things that don’t exist or am I tapping inspiration from the community that surrounds me?  Why am I here to begin with and what purpose do I serve to those around me?  Once again we commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence and 1 December 2008 is World Aids Day. 

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Batsirai Chigama - Poetry
 

Ndateterera, Ndapota
(7 November 2007)

Ndapfugama ndagwadama
Nhai Mwariwe
Ndingawanawo here muface
Anoziva mazita emaruva zana
Akazanirana

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Shizha Idzva
(9 January 2009)

Mimvuri mitatu
Inofamba neni
Kunyanya nhasi
Zvichiita kunge moyo wangu wachekwa
Kuita miranzu mitatu
Uku kupera kwaro gore

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Tariro
(9 January 2009)

Mwanangu Anesu
Pukuta hova dzoyerera paako matama
Ini mai vako ndivete paneiyi nzvimbo
Pandisisina mukana wekupukuta yako misodzi,
mukana wekuva dombo rako

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Skin Deep
(11 October 2007)

He questions everything
From the tone of his skin
To the dime in his pocket
Why the birds soar up high
And he remains rooted

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Tsamba Kuna Baba
(13 January 2009)

Ndinotanga seiko urwu rwunyorwa
“Wadiwa…”
Wadiwa ani?
B.a.b.a
“Ndafara kunyora…”
Chimisa mazwi cherurumi rwangu
Chobva chasunga

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Batsirai Chigama - Who am i?
 
Batsirai Chigama

I am a scissors cutting an umbilical cord
Mutilating birth with the need to save
Life of a newborn.
I am thoughts in heart’s veins
Flickering in watery eyes
Refusing to be released by mouth,
congealed.  I am tapping feet
Quivering lower lip, twitching eye
Uneasy, hidden lies.
Who am I?
I am many things
I am pent up sighs of a satiated lover
A woman arms akimbo in the fields
Face bathed in caked sweat
Child strapped on back on a hot day
I am a distant tortured wail in the village
On a quiet Christmas morning saying
Some die when Christ is being born,
I am the word.

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Batsirai Chigama - News & Updates
Recent Perfomances
 
- Harmonise! at the Poetry Cafe, 2009 Harare International Festival of the Arts.
- Thubalethu, Nguva Yedu Youth Festival
- International Women's Day, British Council
 
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