{"id":18918,"date":"2017-01-05T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:17:15","slug":"monica-sheetekela-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/monica-sheetekela-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica SHEETEKELA – Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Monica<\/a>
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\u00a0Monica Veneteve Sheetekela was born in 1962 in Enyana, a village in Northern Namibia. During the war in 1976, her family went with to one of the refugees Namibian settlements in Angola. She came back home to Namibia in 1989. Monica V. Sheetekela worked as a teacher and has been encouraged to write poems during the \u2019Integrated Teacher Training Programme\u2019. His first poem was published in the ITTP magazine in 1991.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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If you get there before I do...<\/span><\/h1>\n

[published in RN 04 in March 1992, unpublished original text in English]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If you get there before I do<\/span><\/p>\n

Please tell all my friends<\/span><\/p>\n

That I am coming too.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a seed<\/span><\/p>\n

planted in the dry season<\/span><\/p>\n

you know my reason<\/span><\/p>\n

you are my witness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a seed<\/span><\/p>\n

planted in the dry season<\/span><\/p>\n

in bitter conditions<\/span><\/p>\n

But the fence was built<\/span><\/p>\n

and the land watered<\/span><\/p>\n

By every nationalist<\/span><\/p>\n

And the seed grew.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a seed<\/span><\/p>\n

planted in the dry season<\/span><\/p>\n

you know the reason<\/span><\/p>\n

you have seen all over<\/span><\/p>\n

on every hand<\/span><\/p>\n

death of the land<\/span><\/p>\n

But if bodies are dead<\/span><\/p>\n

Hearts are still alive<\/span><\/p>\n

to explain my history.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember me<\/span><\/p>\n

In our free land<\/span><\/p>\n

spirit together<\/span><\/p>\n

In the beauty, glad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Who am I ? What is my name ?<\/span><\/p>\n

Answer my questions !<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget me !<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Monica Sheetekela<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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