Bashir Adan
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  Isaac Anyaogu
  Malika Assal
  Ellen Banda-Aaku
  Juliane Okot-Bitek
  Elaine Chiew
  I. Iyi-Eweka Chou
  Elliott Colla
  Funmi Fetto
  Tendai Huchu
  Mamle Kabu
  A. Kourouma  
  K. W. Kgositsile
  Daniel P. Kunene
  Ryan Eric Lamb
  R. Makamane
  M. Makonnen
  Sarah L. Manyika
  Tola Ositelu
  Martin A. Ramos
  Ayo Morocco-Clarke
  S. D. Partington
  Marcia Lynx Qualey
  Marilyn H. Mills
  Mohamed Raïhani
  John Stephen Rae
  Geoff Ryman
  Essia Skhiri
  Christian Uwe
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Assal (b. 1954) is a Moroccan poet and
short-story writer. She is the author of Tear
drop
(Collection of poems 2005) and Fanciful
Heavens
(Collection of short stories
2006). She is presently working on a new
collection of poems: Yesterday’s Tattoo on
the Shrines.

 

Malika Assal
 
 

 

 

 

 

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O Freedom, You are Worth Your Weight in Gold    11 (Poem)
(translated by Mohamed S. Raihani)

“Hey you there, disguised between the circles of time
So mild under the crust,
I smelt your perfume in my murderer!
Like a butterfly, you hang down, broadly smiling
But when I reach out to grab you,
You withdraw back to your velvet world
And you never peep out again...

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