• eSwatini issue,  Poetry

    They Call me Shangaan, but I’m Hlengwe

    You “original Swatis” as you call yourselves what poor  ignorant creatures you are! The verge of foolishness has covered your faces you call me Shangaan because you think you are insulting me   Don’t you know that the Shangaans are an ethnic group of Africans just as you too are an African with your own ethnic group? I know where I come from, and it is not from the Shangaans   I am a descendent of Chauke the seed of Bhangwana, the father of my clan I am one with the blood that runs in the Mabaso and Xahumba, the Hakwana, Muhlengwe and Xinyori I come from the Hasani and…