I speak only once in a blue moon.

 African Flame – You are the first spark that kindles the fire …

I Am An African – Not because I was born there, but because my heart beats with Africa’s …

Africa – Gondwana, born of Pangaea, when separation first started, like a unicell dividing …

Wild Africa – Africa wakes up, hungry; she prowls in packs and preys …

If These Stones Could Whisper (Robben Island) – … what secrets would they tell? …

Lost City of Gold (Mapungubwe) – … Rise once more, up from the south Limpopo shore …

Women of Africa – In the land of bow and spear, of chieftain and warrior …

Sahara – A silky dust devours the miles ahead between the barely living and the dead …

Cave of the Gods (Sterkfontein) – What is this place? This home of the stromatolite …

Little Foot – Your footprints in the rock supplied a vital clue …

Sangoma in Our Closet – There’s a sangoma in our closet at the office beneath the stair …

A Dragon’s Tale (South Africa) – Breathing smoke, the dragon wakes, yawning fire, and sighing quakes …

Shine, Africa, Shine! – Africa – the dark continent: so named by explorers …

Ode to the Elephant – Your sacred image looms large, painted on the rough canvass of Africa …

Africa Calls to Me – Africa calls to me with the beat of her drums …

First People (Tribute to the San Bushmen) – First people of this ancient land, last exiles in the desert sand …

African Dream – As white-hot skies give way to bloodshot red …

African Odyssey – Beneath the boundless African sky, unblemished blue overhead …

Baobab (Africa’s Tree of Life) – At the heart of the African plain stands a tree both old and sage …

Where the World Once Began (Egypt) – Soaring like a god on wings Isis-blessed, in search of beginnings …

African Time – I’m living my days in African time …

I Know a Place in Africa –  … where I can feel the sun on my back …

Africa’s Pride (Ghana) – Basking in the welcome, walking in the rain …

I Weep for Africa – I weep for Africa – and my tears water the ground …

Place of the Skull (Okavango, Botswana) – In this great place where the elephant roam …

Prayer for Africa – Dear God, for the love of Africa, hear my prayer …

African Pace – Far from the cities and far from the streets …

Canyon of Mirrors (Fish River Canyon, Namibia) – We descend through aeons, layer by layer …

Swahili Spice (Tanzania) – Jambo! Greetings from Dar Es salaam

Music of Africa – Music is the heartbeat of Africa, and as we drum, so we are drummed …

African Vine – The roots of Africa are deep, her branches spread wide and low …

Mandela and De Klerk (South Africa) – Divergent paths by twists of fate …

God Bless Africa – God bless Africa, for she is the seed of humanity …

African Idea – Africa wakes – It boils and bubbles, it stews and steams …

Colours in the Dust (Morocco) –  I leave behind the dusty brown …

Genesis – Out of the void of anticipation, out of the time before time began …

Lagos Lives! (Nigeria) – Lagos lives, seeding and sprawling, steaming and smoking …

We Africans – We, the spark of creation, we, first nation of nations …

From Whence We Come (South Africa) – Hear the names from whence we come …

Africa Proud – I stand upright and tall – No more bowed back, no more bent knees …

Free Us to be Free – Because so much progress has been blind to our beauty …

Africa’s Big Five – A regal roar to break the day …

Ancestral Streams (South Africa) – A drop in the north, a trickle heading south …

Island of Africa – Memories of Gondwana fade, the ancient world torn apart …

Child of Africa – I am a child of Africa – young and wild and free …

African Pilgrimage – I have walked the long trail of history and arrived at this day: triumphant! …

Gathering the Past (Tribute to the Khoikhoi) – Recall the ghosts of GuriQua …

Africa Untamed – Africa is wild: a land untamed, a people unshamed …

Land of the Sun (South Africa) – I’ll never give up on this land of the sun …


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