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Reactions to Dr Lenrie Peters' demise

Dear Cherno, Thank you for your kind words.I hope that my dear uncle passed away peacefully and without suffering. I feel as if something of me that I was hanging on to is now gone for ever. [...] Did you travel to Dakar with the family . Were you with him at the end? I realise now that you and he must have been friends; what a good friend you are. I hope you told him of our correspondence so that he knew  it has been  through you that I have felt close to the family for the first time....

Famous sayings by Dr Lenrie Peters

It seems to me lunacy that we should expect (or believe in their pledges) that the United States, Britain, France or the U.S.S.R. should genuinely want to help us achieve economic parity or political equality. Not even if all the Messiahs were to come down and implore them. And why should they? (Présence Africaine 1980: 54) If, over the millennia, out of this human cradle in Central-Southern Africa evolved the great human civilizations — Chinese, Indian, Byzantine, Mediterranean,...

Katchikali

Katchikali What magic spells held the first men, wandering in darkness heads bowed, to draw breath, refuge from toil and say This is our home Katchikali and the crocodiles of another world under your waters tame as pumpkins Katchikali Katchikali, Katchikali The women weight-drowned towards the farms bend their knees and say a prayer Katchikali Lovers under a fertile moon pray for their children Katchikali And the crocodiles, watchful older...