Oral Poetry from Africa
Filed Under: Pleasure Poems
Kakomana kanoridza mumhanzi kakafenegera
The little boy blows his trumpet with his chest thrown out.
Jongwe
(A cockerel)
from Oral Poetry from Africa (1984),
Compiled by Jack Mapanje and Landeg White
Longman
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