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    Bill Albert 1942-2020

    Jabulani Ncube
    in response to the painting by Paul Levy
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    My dear friend, the Zimbabwean disability rights advocate, Jabulani Ncube, was a powerful spirit. 

    This spirit was married to a daunting intellect, a booming laugh and a finger-fusing handshake. 

    Jabu was one of the founders of the disability movement in Southern Africa. 

    He died suddenly in 2012 in Namibia. 

    He was 59.

     

    African sun

    woven into cloth

    bright tendrils

    wrap the memory

    of Jabu Ncube 

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     published in Atlas Poetica 35
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