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We should all do with a little more poetry

Man talking to another about a girl standing him up
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Last evening at dusk, as the sun set over the city, we launched this text book ‘Modern African Poetry’ for secondary schools with one John Mwazemba of Phoenix Publishers at Chester House.

I have spoken in this space in the recent past about how technology has made students lose the beautiful art of letter writing, replacing it with texts full of Xs that do not make too much sense.

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