Year: 2014

December 11, 2014
The recently released CIA Torture Report prompted my posting of this poem titled, Illusions of Legitimacy. Written in March 2008, it is taken from my unpublished poetry compilation, Drunk, I Wasn’t Drinking.

Illusions of Legitimacy
By N Oji Mzilikazi

When it comes to the blight that is terrorism
No war is thought of as being in error
Even in the face of skewed facts, dubious intel
Or if it will bring the world closer to that Hour
Nothing must obstruct global Pax Americana…

Copyright © 2008 by N Oji Mzilikazi, All Rights Reserved

Canada’s “Public” War On ISIS

By N Oji Mzilikazi

November 22, 2014

It is one thing for Canada to join the “Coalition of the Willing” to combat the threat of ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIL), and another to boast of its exploits.

Far from impressing Canadians as to the contribution and “greatness” of the Canadian military, exposing its military operations could only fuel animosity among sympathisers of ISIS and further encourage Canadian recruitment to ISIS.

Didn’t anyone in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government or the Canadian military read Al Qur’an, Sura II: 190 – 193 that scripturally bless Jihad — justifies Jihad in defence?

“Fight in the cause of God, those who fight you” — it commands, and that positions the aggrieved to be an unrelenting enemy and to pursue blowback at home. Especially, considering that an official war against ISIS has not been declared.

The Canadian military ought to just do their thing and be quiet about it — until…

Kenneth Cole Pimping Haiti

9 November 2014

Kenneth Cole recently “opened a boutique in Haiti that the designer says will bring commercial and humanitarian benefits to the poverty-stricken Caribbean country.”

Designer stores pander to the moneyed, and exert tremendous pressure on those without to be fashionable. The last thing Haiti needs is a Kenneth Cole store.

Haitians would be better served if Kenneth Cole had opened a factory in Haiti to produce some of his goods. Haiti needs industry, not predatory business and overpriced goods— to further distress the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Faith Is All I have

By N Oji Mzilikazi

I have faith
It buckles at times
Tested, sometimes I come up short
Yet faith is all I have.

I have faith
Wombs contented to weep
Hearts that are cold, tired
Desirous of wanting to sleep
Are going to seize hold
Become bold.

I have faith
That the core of goodness in man
Though beaten to the ground
Will rise, take a stand, decry wrong
Protect the weak from the throng
Knowing life is the price of the song.

I have faith
When darkness is present
Things seems hopeless
Light and love are going to find their way.

I have faith
It buckles at times
Tested, sometimes I come up short
Yet faith is all I have.

Copyright © 2014 byN Oji Mzilikazi,All Rights Reserved