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Radio Scotland,4 mins

Mozambique: Sonia Sultuane

Poetry Postcards

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AFRICAN by SONIA SULTUANE You tell me I want to feel African, You say and think that I'm not Just because I don't wear a "Capulana" Because I don't speak "Changana" Because I don't use "Missiri" or "Missangas" Let me laugh... But who is it that told you?! Just because I wear "Levi's, Gucci or Diesel", I'm not...is that it?! Is it that my feelings are shown by these trappings? Or it is that, By the blood that runs in my veins, Black, Arabic, Indian, This exotic mix That makes me the daughter of a continent in many Where everybody mixes And gives me this deepness, I am stronger than clothing and words And you know why? Because I dress, speak, breathe, feel and smell Africa. So what can you know? What do you know? Let me laugh... Let me laugh...

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