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2. Vol. 001
CREATED, WRITTEN, DESIGNED
Kwetu Inmates
P.O.Box 31338
Dar es Salaam
Originally Published Online
December 2012
All Rights Reserved.
3. I’m sorry, am not sorry that you have the right to feel offended
vua viatu
tafadhali
a bare soul is a beautiful thing.
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sire
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only
“I have
5. Co-Me-ToGeTheR
-To-GaTheR
-To-GeT-HeR
She’S-WoRTHY
We gather ’round. We feel the warmth.
Our world illuminated. We feel safe. We belong.
How amazing it all is. Fire.
Yours to Mine. Mine to Yours.
We stare. We wonder. We burn with questions. Endless questions.
The beings we are today were forged in its flames. Eternal flames.
So much depends on it. So much turns on it. What a miracle we are in.
But Fire is selfish. Fire requires sacrifice.
Wood perish keeping the flame alive.
It is ferocious. It is volatile. It is violent. It destroys.
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It needs to be controlled. It needs to be observed.
It needs to be catered for.
When sacrifices are down it loses its form. Fire burns out and dies.
As it die, conversations die and the community within dies too.
We eventually die.
Here I am asking you, “Let’s Keep On Living”
Keeping the flame burning
.Each to Each Other.
7. Patience is a virtue of great men.
It is a virtue that’s immensely employed when it comes to peeling
out layer after layer of that irritating, nerve tingling onion
skin. A key lesson in the art of preparing great meals and it is
a closely guarded secret to all master-chefs in this fast-moving,
multi-tasting, confusing world.
Remember,
the virtue of patience is the hardest to master even for the most
talented and smartest individuals. It often emerges out of indi-
vidual experiences, hardly taught theoretically and understood.
To be a great cook you have to do a hell lot of cooking and
bravely weather onion cries.
..makes you wanna cry!
FOR THE LOVE OF (GREAT) DINNER
8. Love is a feeling.
..a feeling that lives in me through you...
I’m now swearing before God and man, guaranteeing to be
there forever, irrespective of the feeling.. even though it
was the one that got me to this point. Is that realistic? Can a
feeling be commanded by the swing of a brain wave? Can
I?...
I vow never again to ‘accept’(not acknowledge) a feeling
like the one you gave me since we met (which convinces me
to bring you this ring) from anyone else other than you, no
matter what! Can knowledge of a contract succed to block
a feeling to flow? Can I?...
Love is a feeling.
There are times when loving what we do isn’t enough to keep us going....so, when that defining moment comes calling...
10. do animals feel?
do animals get jealousy?
do animals fall in love?
do animals get married?
14. >/ What do the uRBAN bOYS think of the nOT-sO-uRBAN men?
fOR
nOT-sO-uRBAN-mEN
15. ar male
mo male
as fe male
?
!
M NED!
M B E DA
O
WISD
“Look at those old people..They have lived their long boring old lives
for soo long but still they want us to continue living it for them too!
Continue their mistakes, their failed attempts, their anger, revenges,
their fears and recklessness, their medieval ideas... Still not satisfied
with their long experiences but they want to own and direct ours too!
They want us to prolong their lives in our bodies when they have
exhausted theirs doing what they really wanted to!!!! Its all about .iTS aBOUT mE. iTS aBOUT uS.
I keep the conversation about me even after am gone. I captivate you when am around
them! Even when they say its for us, its not....Its still about them!!! and I captivate you when am gone. I refuse you a peace of mind. I break your moral
Damn it! We know what we want and, WE WANT WHAT WE WANT! code. I invade your moral radar and choke you at your own moral backyard. I provoke
It’s our right! Ooooours!” your comfortable silence and command irate conversation aggressively and its about
me and what I represent.
“BACK OFF OLD MAN, BACK OFF!!!!!” .iTS aBOUT nOTHING eLSE mATTERS!
20. IN THE
BUSINESS OF
FEA R
TRADING HOPE?
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BRAND IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY?
21. Can I Have My Salvation Back?
“Sorry, No refunds! It’s a policy”
Would religion have the same effect on people if there were no almost-
certain promises of eternal hell in to it... Could it be trading just on pure ‘good
news’ package it has or good news are convicingly good as long as there are
bad news to compare with?
If you say you are trading/crusading hope, isn‘t it automatically that you are
also trading/crusading fear..because in trading/crusading hope you also
supply free-of-charge fear attachment into it for those who opt otherwise?
23. when murder is celebrated
IF YOU DONT TELL YOUR STORY
ANY STORY WILL BE YOUR STORY
24. Question:
A lazy inventor invented a machine that resulted in doubling
the usual amount of his annual yield in a year.
What was his true intentions?
A: To double the profit per year?
B: To work half the time per year?
C: To work and earn the same per year?
D: Just experimenting?
(Send your answer to zakariwa@gmail.com)
every saint has a past
every sinner has a future
live bravely
25. CREATIVE CONTENT
forever unapologetic
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