Review: The Scars On My Skin by Keamogetsi J. Molapong

Nina Simone said in an interview that, “You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times”. I think Namibian poet, activist, community worker, and performer Keamogetsi J. Molapong takes these words to heart.

In the 1980s when he started writing poetry he protested against the South African apartheid system that cruelly controlled Namibia. Now his poetry is about the corruption of the new elite and the gap between rich and poor, though he still finds time for the occasional love poem.

The Scars On My Skin is Molapong’s second poetry collection, his first, Come Talk Your Heart was published in 2005. The title of The Scars On My Skin stems from the idea that every scar has a story to tell.

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