Ernest Siballi Kgobetsi, such a young and energetic traditional healer and artist. I hope that you find a path in life which satisfies your ancestors (the traditional way) and your artistic desires (the modern way).

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         The shine from within and from below of
         Africanness, humaneness, morality, compassion
         and selfless concern
         for one's fellow women and men
         Awaken, people of Africa, people of the world

         Let us climb the rock with great felicity and energy
         Let us rediscover indigenous knowledge
         deeply entrenched in the bedrock to free shackles, scourges
         of oppression, hunger, ignorance, disease, corruption,
         war
         for transmitting cultural consciousness
         re-awakening traditional values, languages, dignity,
         identity
         in the spirit of the African Renaissance

         the wind under our wings
         refreshed by the waters of one spring
         revived by the breathe of one mind
         strengthened by the rays of one sun
         that can only
         be healed by the sagacity of our ancestors
         - flowers of one human-wisdom-garden

         Generation to generations
         awaken, our ancestors
         awaken, old people
         awaken, the children

         Did the wind of Ubuntu bomuntu stop
         - that which drives the clouds -
         for each one, teach one?
 

           Siballi (padda-padda) Kgobetsi
Dedicated to my father who planted in my poetic garden the seed of Ubuntu
 

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