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We love poetry by Oliver O. Mbamara–Our Fathers (Who We Become)
OUR FATHERS
(Who We Become)
Words of our fathers teach us wisdom.
Beyond the times of read and write,
in oral tradition, they bestow on us
tenets and principles...