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| Ras Black Jairus gives poetry a go |
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Herbert Chandilanga, 08 February 2006
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05:30:43
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Ras Black Jairus, long time member of the Rastafarian band Melchizedek Sons and Daughters, has taken a step further from the music arena to cut a collection of 20 poems dubbed In A Time Like This.
The collection, a production of A Bright Morning Star series, was publish by a United Kingdom based institution, Ras Works under the tutelage of Ras Keambiroiro Selassie.
“When Keambiroiro came to Malawi in June 2005, he got to see my three poem,––In A Time Like This, Life and Poor Man In The Street––he liked them and asked for more. I worked on seventeen others which he took besides the initial three to come up with the collection,” said Jairus.
He said In A Time Like This, which out in September, in was currently selling in the UK and that it would soon be launched on the Malawi market.
The collection runs through various themes in today’s society among which are the upliftment of the black man, need of faith in times of tribulations and paying special attention to the female world in these days of poverty and HIV and Aids.
He said he move from music to poetry was influenced by lack of funds to cut music albums due the shortage of sponsors.
“I’m happy the poetry part of it did not meet the problems encountered in music. It is also a lesson that artists should diversify. We must diversify and try all means possible to put across to the general population messages vital in these days of tribulations.”
“Talk of HIV and Aids, prostitution, poverty and the like, we can fight these through poetry or drama and save troubled lives out there. We can not all cling to music.”
“Poetry can help revive the black heritage we used to cherish. It can help strengthen the weak because mankind doesn’t survive through wickedness. Poetry can help mankind uplift morality and stay in God’s guidance to avoid wickedness which later results into desperation and immorality,” said Jairus.
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