POLITICS

IN THIS ISSUE

A solo drop from JAY MAUMAU — one poem, five movements, code‑switching between English and Kiswahili the way the streets actually talk. It opens with a raised fist and a chest full of pain, tears into the politicians and the propaganda, walks through teargas and live rounds, plants its feet in ancestral defiance, and closes on the continent's unhealed wound — Congo's coltan, borders drawn by someone else's hand, and a glory that was never going to be handed over.

• 01Black FistAshes, pain, and a fist raised for black power
• 02Siasa MbayaThe politicians, the propaganda, the ballot‑box lie
• 03Streets On FireTeargas, live bullets, a story written in blood
• 04Liberty Or DeathAncestral power, the voice of the voiceless
• 05Borderless AfricaColtan, diamonds, and a glory never given

POLITICS