My Land

About the Book

This book is about nothing and everything at the same time: big people, small people, birth, death, happiness, sadness, war, peace, everything. It is my concept of poetry, the concept of a liberated minded – liberated poetry. It is Pan African poetry, about African issues all over the world. It is about African beauty and a liberated look at the self. It is the poetry of a returned exile celebrating the beauty of his native land.

About the Author

Tswagare Namane fi rst wrote from East Africa doing propaganda work for the liberation movement; and later contributed in various English language newspapers, mostly short stories that sought to illustrate for Africans outside and others the real situation facing the oppressed inside South Africa. A number of his poems appear in anthologies published around the world. Transitions - a collection of poems was published from London in 1997. This book, fi rst published in e-form, is his second major work. He has in the meantime since published My Land (Bits and Pieces), a contemporary collection of poems.