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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>I am very excited about two African women poets, Micere Mugo and Eve Nyemba, who happen to double up as university based scholars and feminists. The first one is elderly and also a fierce Marxist.<\/p>\n

The second one is much younger and exciting all the same, because she is still finding her way through poetry, scholarship and feminism. Put together, their work shows the development of feminist literature amongst female scholars of African descent.<\/p>\n

Through her scholarship and poetry, you quickly see that Micere Githae Mugo is an avowed Marxist, feminist and nationalist. Her position is informed by a nuanced understanding of African women in the context of history.<\/p>\n

Talking to Adeola James in 1986, she says, \u201cThe kind of writer that I have a lot of time and respect for is a writer like Alex La Guma. I admire the fact that his writing was not only talking about struggle, but he was part and parcel of the struggle in South Africa.<\/p>\n

I admire somebody like Ngugi Wa Thiongo, whose example and position in life has demonstrated his commitment to the struggle of the Kenyan people. This kind of writer I want to identify with.<\/p>\n

\u201d About women and feminism, Mugo says, \u201cThe African woman occupies the lowest rung of the ladder.<\/p>\n

\u201d She clearly states that women in Africa are oppressed by both African patriarchy and colonialism. To her, they bear the double yoke.<\/p>\n

Mugo says as feminists, we must know that not all women are oppressed because some women are part of the oppressive capitalist class because of their own historical positions and race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing wrong in singing about women but I think we must be careful to define and specify which women we are singing about\u2026\u201d Mugo says. In her collection of poems called My Mother\u2019s Poem and Other Songs, Micere Mugo comes across as a very conscious and deliberate poet.<\/p>\n

She is not lost in poetry for its emotional sake but she is involved in a very pointed mode of poetry that sees the feminist struggle as part of the human struggle.<\/p>\n

Her poetry though feminist, identifies with the African landscape and culture and claims that positive African culture has always been intrinsically feminist.<\/p>\n

In her first poem, she writes a feminist nationalist rhetoric: \u201cThe beautiful ones were born in the land of Me Katilili the home of Koitalel arap Samoei<\/p>\n

on the soil of Muthoni waKirima the birthright of kimathi wa Wachiuri. \u201d Probably Micere Mugo\u2019s most energetic and dazzling poem in this collection is called \u201cTo be a Feminist is.<\/p>\n

\u201d Her critical message is that while the work of African feminists is about encouraging equity between men and women, feminism should transcend that and crave for the same sense of belonging that all the masses crave for in Africa regardless of their gender.<\/p>\n

For her, to be feminist \u201cis to celebrate my birth as a girl, to ululate that my gender is female. It is to make contact with my being. \u201d She struggles against patriarchy and western imperialism in the same breath:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me to be feminist is to denounce patriarchy and the caging of women<\/p>\n

it is to wipe the fuzziness of colonial hangovers to uproot the weeds of neo-colonial pestilence. For me to be feminist is to hurl through the cannon of my exploding righteous fury the cannibal named capitalism it is to pronounce death sentence on the ogre named imperialism. \u201d<\/p>\n

Mugo\u2019s feminism in the poem called \u201cThe woman\u2019s poem\u201d imagines women of the world standing together regardless of the boundaries of their countries so that together they \u201cexplode defrosted and refrigerated woman-hood pestled and mortared over time.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

It means that Mugo imagines a time when womanhood was a perfect place and that space was only defiled by the struggles to dominate other people and other lands.<\/p>\n

Mugo\u2019s feminism gives in to the desire to create united national and international vision of people in Africa and the third world. She tends to think that feminism tends to have capitalist traits and would be ameliorated with a dose of Marxist-nationalist thought.<\/p>\n

You see this in poems like \u201cWe will rise and build a nation. \u201d She thinks that the divisions between man and woman are a project that can easily be dealt with compared to the chasm between the rich and the poor or that between the North and the South:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me to be feminist is to have dialogue with my father and my brother to invite their partnership as fellow guerrilla it is to march with them to the war torn zone of Afrikana survival it is to jointly raise with them the victory salute.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

In the preface to this collection, Mugo admits that she has had a continous dialogue with Ayi Kwei Armah\u2019s novel The beautiful Ones are Not yet Born and agrees with him that \u201cthe neo colonial ruling class is made up of ugly creatures of prey, but insisting that even in the midst of all this ugliness, beautiful human beings have been born.<\/p>\n

\u201d This means that Mugo finds Armah pessimistic about the future of an independent Africa.<\/p>\n

Mugo believes that the African personality can start to be reworked towards beauty once more because initially Africans are born amidst beautiful lands with people with beautiful relations.<\/p>\n

They must find regeneration from that idea. The beast in us has to be defeated so that the angel in us is born: \u201cThe beautiful ones were born in the lowlands of despair through valleys of elusive hope across ridges of obstinate resistance on the highlands of mounting optimism.<\/p>\n

\u201d Micere Githae Mugo, born Madeleine Micere Githae in 1942, is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya. She is a literary critic and professor of literature in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n

She was forced into exile in 1982 from Kenya during the Daniel arap Moi dictatorship for activism and moved to teach in Zimbabwe, and later the United States.<\/p>\n

Micere Githae Mugo is an internationally known world speaker recognised for her literary works, essays and writings which she has used as a platform to advocate for social justice and human rights in Africa especially Kenya.<\/p>\n

She has been described by most of her colleagues as a teacher and a woman of virtue, integrity, principle, and benevolence. As an educator, she likes to challenge her students to think beyond what they learn in the books and what they hear.<\/p>\n

She has written various plays, her most well known having been jointly authored with Ngugi Wa Thiongo called The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. Her first collection of plays called Daughter of My People sing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Eve Nyemba\u2019s poems in Look Within represent another version of feminism different from Micere Mugo\u2019s. Eve Nyemba\u2019s poems ring with an unmistakable vitality of youth, searing passions and sweet-sad meditation.<\/p>\n

Of all known women\u2019s poetry of Zimbabwe, Eve Nyemba comes closest to Kristina Rungano especially in A Storm Is Brewing. These poems are about love; as a woman searches for it or as she gets to know the colour of its brutal insides.<\/p>\n

These poems are about what love does to a woman if she does not look too closely before she jumps. These poems are about passionate and difficult men too.<\/p>\n

These poems are an attempt by the individual to look deeply into herself and take stock of how her mind works or not work. When you are there, you are in Kristina Rungano territory.<\/p>\n

There is that ability here, to pause and think about the small bricks that make up the huge fabric. The driving force to these poems is Nyemba\u2019s forceful use of the repetition at the beginning of every line.<\/p>\n

This enacts the vigour of protest and the instincts of the African praise singer where simple phrase reaches very hypnotic levels, as in the public poets of South Africa in the dark days of apartheid.<\/p>\n

The diction here as in Freedom Nyamubaya\u2019s poetry is very simple, making these poems very accessible to the reader. In \u2018When Silence speaks\u2019 you find a tattered woman who has had the worst of the \u2018man\u2019s world\u2019.<\/p>\n

Abused, is the word. Deep pain, is her situation. She suffers in silence, and that disturbs. Eve Nyemba uses a dark shade to give the woman a Christ-like figure because as she suffers in silence, there are depths in her that the external blows cannot reach.<\/p>\n

She comes across like many of Yvone Vera\u2019s victim women, especially the sisters in the novel \u2018The Stone Virgins\u2019. Their mere presence, in spite of what they have gone through, leaves a discerning reader in awe.<\/p>\n

But women need not be victims especially if they learn to \u2018look within and find faith\u2019. The poet invites the woman not to go beyond herself \u2018out in the pounding rain\u2019 for salvation.<\/p>\n

But the African woman is beautiful too with her hair \u2018the colour of the dusty earth\u2019 and should leave alone the body modifications from the West like plastic surgery. But Nyemba can snoop well into the world of menfolk and see the other reality of men in the Third World.<\/p>\n

It is a \u2018man\u2019s world\u2019 but how many men own that world? Sometimes, as in \u2018Manchild\u2019 men are also victims of various social forces that even they can lose control and cut very lonely, little and saddened images:<\/p>\n

His shoulders are hunched His steps falter The load on his head Drains him for reason This is a man who becomes a father when he does not have the means.<\/p>\n

He is a castrated fellow, a fatherless father! Sometimes it is the women who give one another a very raw deal. In \u2018you think\u2019 a woman boasts of how she can take over another woman\u2019s man.<\/p>\n

In Zimbabwe this husband stealer is known as \u2018small house\u2019. So the husband stealer boasts about how the poor man will always run away from the mansion to have a nice time with the small house in the \u2018single quarters\u2019.<\/p>\n

But if one is looking for the Eve Nyemba philosophy, \u2018The secret places\u2019 is the poem: The secret places of my heart Exist in the corridors of love. The secret places of my love<\/p>\n

Lives in you. Indeed, you and me. The secret that the world fails to uncover is Love. Of course, different forms of Love. \u2018We need to love and love properly\u2019 is an idea that runs through these poems.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, in these poems Love is a tempest, \u2018a ravaging vortex of a dust devil\u2019 and when it fails to be consummated as in Consumed the desire for the other becomes very overwhelming.<\/p>\n

Eve Nyemba has ability to stray into territory that other leading Zimbabwean women poets in English like Lillian Masitera and Megan Allardice only allude to and \u2018run\u2019 from.<\/p>\n

Above all, Eve Nyemba has hope for both the girl child and Africa. They both need to be given \u2018a chance\u2019, she writes. Africa is \u2018an image of precious stones\u2019 even \u2018an emerging giant\u2019.<\/p>\n

This is a collection for those who look for poetry that talks from the soul. Those who look for the secrets that only poets tend to see in every community<\/p>\n

Eve Zichanzi Nyemba is a lecturer in political science at the University of Zimbabwe. She is married and has two children. She worked as an accountant at C.<\/p>\n

P. B Hiring Services from December 1999 up to August 2000. In 2003 she joined the Impact Development Associates as a Professional Assistant up to December 2004.<\/p>\n

She then became the Head of Research and Development at LASOF Leadership Institute from March 2010 to January 2011. She has a number of publications which include Paradise stories which is a children\u2019s story book and Look Within (2008) an anthology of poems. She is also a Pan Africanist inspired by Robert Mugabe, Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta.<\/p>\n

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