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Promise Kwakwala, a Malawian emerging writer, was born in 1999.

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Promise Kwakwala: For Tonight

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FOR TONIGHT Let’s stamp On the mud In our beautiful rags Before our beaten huts Dancing In delight To the hisses Of resurrected rivers Singing songs That mock...

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