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I Believe In Art

Our definition of culture in the past years of independence has been limited to bear-breasted girls thumping the earth at the airport to welcome visiting 'dignitories', or the type of 'tsotsis' who had cheated some nation into believing that they would relive them of poverty or some other kind of social stress.

Otherwise the girls will be required to sing praise songs for the presidents of the country, parliamentarians and councillors at state ceremonies and funerals, especially as elections draw near.

The girls will also be required to sing praises to the Kings of the 'major tribes' as and when he shall decide that he is broke enough to invoke his royal prerogative to summon community investment in his personal endeavour to look rich. We now yearn for a revolutionary definition of culture which will ask the state to better the living condition of the working person. 

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Closure as pain lingers

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