Something does not feel right. What is missing? In the jargon of discourses of identity, recognition, and regimentation, the aesthetics of being, relating and belonging are left behind. This week's newsletter welcomes one such medium back to its pages. One where words utter less and show more, a picture that captivates and intersects through what is already known and yet unfelt. Ndlovu's poem brings back the memories of being alive, before life paths were checkered with borders, and the subsequent tensions of being different. So we descend on the staircase Ndlovu constructs for us with her artistic mastery and we feel left alone (like a migrant) at the end with an "and", longing to go further, yet stopped by the author to reflect and ....
Solidarity,
Your Convivial Thinkers
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Have you wondered what raï means? Find out.
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In this week's raï we are excited to share the thought-provoking poem titled "Life Expectancy" by Duduzile S. Ndlovu. The poem engages with the themes of racism and slavery and argues how the habitual existential experiences of the black people across the world continue to be physically and ideologically dictated by the colonial/Euromodern parameters of visa policies, commercial invasions, educational interventions, behavioral patterns, etc. Written in the pattern of an incomplete staircase, the style of writing theoretically and aesthetically aligns with the perspectives of this poem. |
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The Reading Group meets again on 9 June. We will discuss chapters 10 to 12 of bell hooks' 'Feminist Theory". Everyone is welcome!
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