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“When a man can’t live on the land of his ancestors,
he settles down in the land of his imagination.”
Kayimuinda Ndjo[1]
They were dreams of a field of cassava. Stretched out in the soft grass, in the shadow of sorrow, he kept his eyes shut. Like a bird in flight he let the rebellious savanna pass him by. A far away sound, deep and pure, accompanied it. He dreamt of flying over a wave of pheasants, the mountains of the moon, a herd of buffalo galloping elegantly in the marsh. From a sun-green falls of water, a lake with the colours of secret contemplation was born. Suddenly, he was overcome with the desire to lose himself in the clouds, the need to see nothing anymore, the wish to guess everything. Between heaven and earth no longer to live without, however, being dead. From the summit of the hill to be able at last to look at the crest of the hill, that refuge where the wise one rests. Mad in their lifetimes, wise in their death. There where the earth goes to sleep, there where the wind whistles, there where the moon is mother thunder, there where the sun is blind. To fly over a forest of dwarf palm trees. To bathe in the lake of virgins and run in the sacred woods in search of sacred bones. He glimpsed the camp of grandfather Ntolle Mbuyi[2] on the north bank of the river. The hunting days which are festivals. He heard the song of his brothers raised in the air. A song of indigenous people, the Secret Boyfriend breathed to him. A song of man quite simply he murmured. He had become a sick eagle. He said goodbye to the dreams of the eagle of the hills of Douala. Dreams of a field of cassava.
[1] Dried up steam (Angola/Cabinda)
[2] He who gives out vices (Angola/Cabinda)
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Landa wo is an author from Angola, Cabinda and France. He writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, often in some hybrid form. You can find his words in Bellingham Review , Colorado Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Columbia Journal, Cyphers, Fiction International, Grain Magazine, Black Warrior Review online, Michigan Quarterly Review , Missouri Review, Raleigh Review, Salt Hill, Scrivener Creative Review, The Common and other journals and anthologies. Landa wo is politically engaged and his work deal with prominent issues of social justice, discrimination and cultural strife.
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