Review: Colored Armpits: Poems for Social Justice by James Kityo Ssemmanda
Ugandan born poet Ssemanda casts light on critical issues that we all need to explore in the collection of personal, political, and perceptive works, Colored Armpits: Poems for Social Justice.
Ssemanda’s book of verse is divided in three sections – “The Mzungu,” “The Armpits,” and “The African African.” Each touches on different aspects of the human condition, and particularly, the condition of African and other third world people in connection or confrontation with first world denizens and value systems.
Mzungu is the African language term used in Uganda and elsewhere to designate white people – whether they be colonialists, […]
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