Thursday, October 7, 2021

Reciprocity (in East Africa)

I dedicate this poem of mine to UK-based novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which is now part of Tanzania. The quotation in the poem below is an anonymous Tanzanian saying.


RECIPROCITY (IN EAST AFRICA)

One good turn always
deserves another. "Help me
during the flood," says
the Tanzanian, "and I
will help you during the drought." 

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