Igoli Egoli - Valiani, Salimah
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Gol EGoliya sociopolitical reading of Johannesburg/iGoli drawing on its famous, and not so famed people, places, plants and pronouncements. Featuring the city's well known and lesser known histories, presents, and words, the medium used is poetry: for its unique ability to tap into the emotional, the subconscious, the unsaid, that underlie many of the city's motivations. While not shying from violence and divisions, iGoli is presented as a meeting place: a place of original, transnational subnational, and primordial origins Building on Salimah Valiani's poetry collection, 29 leads to love;…mehr

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Gol EGoliya sociopolitical reading of Johannesburg/iGoli drawing on its famous, and not so famed people, places, plants and pronouncements. Featuring the city's well known and lesser known histories, presents, and words, the medium used is poetry: for its unique ability to tap into the emotional, the subconscious, the unsaid, that underlie many of the city's motivations. While not shying from violence and divisions, iGoli is presented as a meeting place: a place of original, transnational subnational, and primordial origins Building on Salimah Valiani's poetry collection, 29 leads to love; 2022 Winner of the International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry fragments of the larger love found in Jozi pepper the collection. These love fragments, and iterations of inimba (empathy, loosely translated from isiXhosa), are dffered aleads to building unity. Via thenes of migration, multiplicity. ecology, and love, and a range of lived experiences of inequality Igoli EGoli offers a pathbreaking means to reconsider and, transform the world city iGoli, and quite possibly, other cities too.
Autorenporträt
Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist and researcher. She is author of 29 leads to love, the 2022 Winner of The International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry. She has also published four other poetry collections: breathing for breadth (TSAR 2005); Letter Out: Letter In (Inanna 2009); land of the sky (Inanna 2016); Cradles (Daraja 2017). Valiani was born of a mother from Uganda and father from Tanzania, in Calgary (Canada), or what was first known as Mohksinstis by the Blackfoot First Nation. Like her parents, Valiani left home young, beginning a journey which has included extended stops in Montreal, London (UK), New York City, Binghamton (USA), Toronto, Cape Town, Ottawa, and Johannesburg.