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Roy Kwabena

roi kwabenaRoi Kwabena is a national of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean. He was born in 1956.
As a cultural activist, he has lectured, performed and conducted workshops at the request of numerous governments, city councils, universities, schools, libraries and cultural bodies across the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Thousands of youngsters and adults, including pensioners have benefited from his offerings.

Many of his publications are considered vital reference materials for understanding the diverse cultural experiences of southern peoples. A former Opposition Senator in his place of birth, he is currently preparing for the International Premiere of the epic work : "FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS". Roi Kwabena is expected to perform in various countries coinciding with the publication of this new collection of poems & Cd. It features his immutable style of intriguing Dialogue, Dramatizations and Drumology.

 

 

 

A JOB FOR THE HANGMAN

by Roy Kwabena

© copyright Roi Kwabena

...now take your responsibility seriously....

; hang with expediency

hang this legislation for its impropriety

hang the legacy of slavery an' indentureship

hang high the ruling parasitic oligarchy

hang until dead the injustice of being

incarcerated for two decades awaiting execution...

hang the plan to abolish the privy council

hang (sic) the plan to empower the sterile

legal vultures of these plantation  economies....

hang the archaic state of prisons,

be it  trinidad, jamaica or grenada

hang quickly the temptation to ignore

amnesty international...

hang the truth up high that the issue

is not only the death penalty but  human rights...

accept the reality that the causes of crime

must  be addressed

for the homeless, poverty-stricken, naked an' hungry

cannot be overlooked...

hang the inability to protect the fishing industry...

execute immediately the notion of nationals

(whether trini or guyanese)

have the right to pollute the orinoco delta

with their drug an' gun runnin' activity,,,

hang until dead this system of neo-colonialism

.....now take your responsibility seriously....

then we can begin to discuss

NATIONAL UNITY....

OBEAH MAN

by Roi Kwabena

©copyright Roi Kwabena

i wish i was an obeah man
better than papa niza or even shadow

to light a big mauve candle and throw light on

evils throughout the 'global village'

i wish i was a  obeah man to write the wrongs
but not for a noble prize, only  to feed

the hungry children an' poor people...

i wish i was a obeah man to enable sight through the lies
an' chase away the flies of broken promises

i wish i was a obeah man
to decide an end to austerity measures

establish a 'real' world order

destroying racism..and political debauchery

i wish i was a obeah man

an' run foreign conglomerates

who exact profits

in a new wave of deception....

i wish i was a obeah man
to obliterate nepotism

while at the same time licking up drug barons

who pose as legitimate merchants

i wish i was an obeah man
to manifest and distribute spirit blows

as deals are secretly made

to devour the wealth of our people...

i wish i was an obeah man
to  manifest de

over due national theatre

i wish i was an obeah man
and stabilize the T&T dollar

...depose the plantocracy

to empower the landless...

i wish i was an obeah man
an' stop police brutality

i wish i was an obeah man
an wok some true- true obeah

but it is difficult to be
an obeah practitioner

when even the patrons are fakes

while the deserving are chased

away by bureaucracy....

as some very important people
seek me out

in the dead of night.....