DECOUNTRYRIZED (I HAVE LEFT MY HOME IN YOUR MEMORY) by Acha Divine Patandjilla

Excerpt

“Say goodbye to a refugee when you see them smile
That would be a dream from a thousand miles
Of peace promised by historically corrupted minds
Who never answer to Peace.

“Say goodbye to a refugee when you see them cry,
The guns and runs and bomb-blasts made their land dry;
Their hearts steady
Hard like stone,
Every tear a signal
Of dying faith
Every drop a hope gone

“Home is fairytale
Home is hell
Home is hot enough.”

-SAY GOODBYE 

Author

ACHA DIVINE PATANDJILA LERATO is Congolese national born in 2000 in South Africa. In 2015 her family sought refuge in Uganda because of insecurities back in DRC. In 2018, alongside her friends, she helped to initiate the Greenhill Academy Poetry Club where students would gather every Thursday afternoon and share poetry. By the end of 2018 she joined VERSE IN VAC, a poetry program run by Kitara Nation that focuses on developing theatre and written poetry. Under this program she was able to write and perform poetry in a number of theatre productions thus stepping out as a performance poet. This is her first poetry collection.

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Publishing Particulars of the Book

ISBN:  9-798654-863478
Format:  Paperback & Kindle
Language:  English
Number Of Pages: 68
Published: 2020
Publisher: Kitara Nation