‘Poetry is the language of the heart’ – Discovering Tanzania with Neema Komba
Update: 2024-05-12
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In this episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth meet Tanzanian poet Neema Komba. Neema shares her poetry journey, from a terrible event that took place as a teenage girl in a hospital, to the point that she discovered poetry as a way to express herself, to becoming the co-founder of La Poetista, a platform for poets and other performing artists to showcase their art and create a positive impact in the community through the arts. Sharing poems in both Swahili and English, poems this episode include: To my potential husband; Unaogopa Sauti Yangu (Are you afraid of my voice); and an Untitled Poem, all by Neema Komba; and Are you leaving Al Kindi? by Mohamed Yunus Rafiq.
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