Epistle To Afrophobic South Africa

written by Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango

When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South Africans and Africans who failed to unite Africa. The Epistle ticks off all who take pride in their fake and feeble nationality, which, essentially is a colonial leftover. The message is point-blank. South Africans must confront their actual problems such as systemic and systematic injustices and inequities dogging their country wherein ‒ whites and a few elites still own almost everything ‒ in lieu of passing the buck.

Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango

Mhango is author of Saa ya Ukombozi, Nyuma ya Pazia, Souls on Sale, Born with Voice, Africa Reunite or Perish, and Psalm of the Oppressed, member of Writers’ Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL) St. John’s NL Canada and is an alumnus of Universities of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Winnipeg and Manitoba (Canada).