Heal the fracture between the Land and the People
I first came into contact with Kenesias Dambakurima when I saw him reading my poem For the Fallen outside the Chinese consulate in Cape Town as part of the Flowers for Them campaign for Qumquat, the matriarch elephant whose whole herd was gunned down in October 2012. He contacted me some time after that to say he would like to read my poems aloud to his children, and on an album. I was touched and humbled. I tried to write something that he could read to us all in Africa. Change is desperately needed. We have a beautiful continent which is being raped. If anybody is familiar with the Grail Quest of Arthurian legend... the Wounded King represents the split between Sovereignty (the Goddess/land) and the people. Ecopsychology takes it out of the mythical realms into everyday language of how damaged the human psyche is because we have lost contact with the land. So Kenesias, dear warrior... this is for you and for every African of every race, cree...