Home Truths - Sandile Ngidi

She says come in,

Feel at home

Her face a platter of unpretentious love

An African Girlchild - Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

She wakes up early in the morning and works like a mother

Which she is not but only a child.

Nile - Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin

I am the first Earth Mother of all fertility.

I am the Source, I am the Nile, I am the African, I am the beginning!

Great bull with testicles - Apuk Jurwir Dinka tribesman

Great bull with testicles has been killed¹

It is Divinity

Urohs Sexy - Emelihter S. Kihleng

sexy is a popular word

throughout the world

like Coke

Hailli 1 - Pachacuti

O Creator, root of all,

Wiracocha, end of all,

Lord in shining garments

who infuses life

and sets all things in order,

Serenade (from Songs of Dzitbalche) - Anonymous

Oh to kiss

Your mouth

At the loose railing

Of the picket fence!

Sundjata’s Conception - Anonymous

After it had happened

That Sundjata’s mother had become pregnant,

When she had been pregnant for one year,

Susu Sumanguru Baamangana’s diviners by stones said to him,

‘The child who will destroy your kingship

Has been conceived within Manding.’¹ 

The warrior song of King Gesar (Part 1.I.i) - Anonymous

The white smoke of the juniper rises

Fragrant and dense from the burning coals,

Billowing into an empty shining sky,

A vast mirror-like expanse

Unclouded by the shadow or birth or fear of death.

Poem by the Emperor - Emperor Yūryaku

Girl with your basket,

     with your pretty basket,

with your shovel,

     with your pretty shovel,

gathering shoots on the hillside here.