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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 19:07 |
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The African woman by Toyin Agbetu
I love her.
The African woman.
My physical reflection, my spiritual connection.
She who completes me.
Normalises and not exoticises me.
Respects and not tolerates me.
Challenges without embarrassing me,
Educates without denigrating me
Loves me, and only me, for me being me.
Please try to understand,
I am her man, not a money making fan.
Please try to relate,
She is my woman, and not a feminine man.
I’m enslaved by devotion to emotions for her
I’m enraged by erosion of respect towards her
I’m engulfed by her aura of physical perfection
I’m enticed by her presence and her soul, intellect and…
I’m entwined in our struggle , which she recognises..
Which she never denies is…
real.
But we are Africans,
And we as Africans complement each other,
Choosing to
Assimilate and integrate each other
Unify and diversify each other
Intensify and pacify each other
Procreate and multiply as…. lovers
Making perfect baby African others.
We are…
Jagged parts of the same whole
an African family
with high and lows
both equal and unequal
Yet together as one
both weak and strong
and old with young
For if I am her sky
then she is my sun
and If I am her tree
then she is my roots
I smile for her
I cry for her
I live for her
and I’ll die for her
for
unconditionally
I love her
The African woman.
Pan African Women’s Day – 7 August 2004
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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 19:15 |
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@ Toyin
Im gonna move this to the poetry thread
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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 20:50 |
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Drunken Monkey
Please consider not moving it. I wrote my declaration in response to the recently published article in the Guardian entitled “why I will only date black men�.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1271949,00.html
I posted it in the community section for several reasons. I wanted to inspire debate in the main forums and encourage positive debate about our African love. I fear that placing it in the poetry section may marginalise the issue with a collection of comments about my ‘prose’. I felt that it is very rare for us to read of brothas declaring their unconditional love for sistas in a public forum. With the constant bombardment of statistics saying that we are running into mixed relashionships I felt it would be good to make clear our “appreciations� as mentioned in the description of the community announcement section. It is also soon Pan African Women Day which I felt it was suitable community news.
Peace
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Posted: Wednesday September 8th, 2004 02:37 |
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You dont need to go through all that trouble, just get yourself a copy of the 'Black Queen' compilation.
A compilation with essense and dierection!
LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE, LOVE FOR DA CHILD, LOVE FOR THE WOMAN.
UHURU means FREEDOM!!
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Posted: Thursday January 26th, 2006 00:16 |
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... I was feeling a likkle down and then I found this... I'm now goin to bed feeling nice... Many thanks @ Toyin... this is sooo lovely... I was gonna say, 'I really love the first bit'... then I read it agian and thought, 'nah, the second bitz the best'... and then I got to realising, 'I jus loves the whole thing, every last bit!'... so thank you... 
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Posted: Friday January 27th, 2006 09:15 |
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| I LOVE this poem, it really touched me.
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Posted: Monday February 13th, 2006 16:29 |
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Toyin,
Thanks for sharing your feelings for us. I agree that we don't hear many of our brothers actually putting into words what they feel so I appreciate that you did
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Posted: Monday February 13th, 2006 17:50 |
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| Thank you very much for posting your beautiful poem Toyin...... it really touched me!!
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