LKJ concert in Grahamstown-2009

 

Just before the fall of last tattered piece of the purple poster signalling the Grahamstown tour by the English dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.

LKJ concert poster

As sights, sounds and flavour brought by this odd concert by the well travelled poet dwindle into the world of forgotten.

LKJ and Dennis Bovell Band in Grahamstown

 I feel the need to add one more line to this story already told to highlight a crucial role played by local bands and the audiences in this concert.

 I could not believe my eyes as I saw Grahamstown listed amongst metropolitan venues like Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

I miss my 2008 PGDip classmates

I remember my varsity years  at Rhodes University, especially 2008.  Lost in a  mix of students from  almost all racial groups in South Africa and a few from Zimbabwe, our neighbour country. The experience is worth retelling.

A class photo of PGDip 2008 outside AMM builing at Rhodes

It was liberating to find yourself and your space in such a diversity of viewpoints and opinions.