IGoli EGoli Poems by Salimah Valiani

IGoli EGoli is a sociopolitical reading of Johannesburg/iGoli, drawing on its famous, and not so famed, people, places, plants and pronouncements. Featuring the city’s well known and lesser-known histories, presents, and words, the medium used is poetry: for its unique ability to tap into the emotional, the subconscious, the unsaid, that underlie many of the city’s motivations. While not shying from violence and divisions, iGoli is presented as a meeting place: a place of ‘original’, transnational, subnational, and primordial origins

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist, and researcher born in the city first named Mohksinstis, by the Blackfoot First Nation. Like her mother, of Mitala Maria, Uganda, and her father, of Bukoba, Tanzania, she left her birth home as a young adult. Her journey of study, work, and living has included extended stops in Montreal, London, New York City, Binghamton, Toronto, Cape Town, Ottawa, and Johannesburg. Beyond books, she has authored a range of articles and policy papers on North/South inequality, development, health/care, and global economic justice. Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist, and researcher born in the city first named Mohksinstis, by the Blackfoot First Nation. Like her mother, of Mitala Maria, Uganda, and her father, of Bukoba, Tanzania, she left her birth home as a young adult. Her journey of study, work, and living has included extended stops in Montreal, London, New York City, Binghamton, Toronto, Cape Town, Ottawa, and Johannesburg. Beyond books, she has authored a range of articles and policy papers on North/South inequality, development, health/care, and global economic justice.