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Blades Of Grass Tickle Each Other And I'm Paralysed By Their Snickers  By The Rustle Song Latched On To The Wind's Doodle Of A Back They Dance To Their Own Back And Forth Laughter An Ebb And Flow From Which I Learn I'm Not Alone In The Company They Preclude Amusement The Other Fellow Bloviates With The Silence As Do I Both Of Us, Smiling Pro Forma At Our Faite Accompli Both Of Us, Gung-Ho To Have Got The Dog Whistle Before Our Witty Wheaty Hosts Chucked And Chuckled The Apercu  "There's A Monster Lurking About Lithe And Traversing The World On A Different Axis" Our Self Appointed Agent Provocateurs Burst At The Seams With Hysteria Beholden To The Cacophony And, Bespoke To Their Subjects We Both Run, From Guilt By Association Association By Guilt, From Both, We Run   And From Each Other, We Are Associated By A Guilt The Guild That Yields, We Are Guilty Of Yielding Both The Guilt  And The Yield  Of Our First Kill

                                                  Are We Trapped In Each Other's Gaze                                                            Or You Only In Mine?                                                   As I Go Out To Decoupage My Days                                                   Does My Style Get A Lateral Co-Sign?           ...

They Do Say "The Autumn Leaves That Never Asked To Fall, Find A Home In The Winds Of Change." The Objective Verity Of This Statement I Cannot Affirm Without Sullying My Solemnity. I Could Never Dare To Be That Much Imbued In Dare-Devilish Ways, Nor Reveries Natured Such. However, I Cannot Help But Wonder, Mind Muddily Befuddled, About The Cravings Of The Spring Flower. Did The Stalked Beau Ever Ask For The Beauty Of Bloom To Be Sprung About It? Could It Ever Ask For Such A Horrendous Gift? To Bloom And Be The Rug Of A Duty Charged Working Class Bee? To Bloom And Be The Purveyor Of Pollen It Never Gets To Revel Nor Relish In? Or Else Otherwise And Alternatively, To Bloom Hermaphrodite In Morphe, Only To Find Sanctuary Within The Contraption That Is A Nay-Sayer's Structured Sentence? Strung Words Whose Context Is Rigged Rigorously In A Royale Swearer's Regalia, Painted The Blossomed 'Selfish Usurper Of Own Inspiration To The World? An Ugly-Hogging-Hog Of All That...

We Are Within The Crucible, Amidst A Roaring Sea Of Flames And Peril. The Heat Is On And That Ominous, Unrelenting Paradiddle That Your Ears Caught Wind Of Is The Inexorable Din Of An Inbound, Fast Approaching, Revolution. It Is The Sound Of Dominoes Vengefully Clobbering Against The Next, With Every Collision Setting In Effect The Diffusion Of A Contagious Spirit Of Courage. It Is The Song Of The Lid Dancing Above The Volcano That Is Our Boiling Heads. Yes, We Are A Generation Of Hot-Heads. We Have Always Been. Watchu Thought? Have You Not Witnessed With Your Own Two That We've Been Fuming From All Pores Like The Temples Of The Same Collieries That Stoke Your Politicians Bellies Fat? Even Before We Were Thrust Into The Jaws Of The Novel Monster, Our Collective Aura Was Ebullient, Fanning Out Into Every Space Cardinal With The Verve Of Our Youth, As Sickened As We Are, In Tow. But We Could Wait. We Could Wait Until Restrictions Are Eased Or Done Away With In Entirety. We Could Wait...

Designed by: Cyc Jouzy Click on this link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svsy2reVIFc  to check out Vee's hit single 'Dumalana' visuals calculated by the very gifted Jack Botlhoko, currently on 1.4 million views on YouTube! The 36 year old Kwaito Star has raised the bar and moved the needle forward as far as YouTube viewership in Botswana is concerned.  Are we celebrating this as a historical moment in Botswana's entertainment product consumption or we are still being skeptical over how the video got to a million views in less than 5 months?

AR - Holoportation Holoportation our future reality? Since time immemorial, human interactions have always been physical, within arms reach.  Fast forward  to 1887 as conventional history suggests,  Alexander Graham Bell  invents the telephone! It was miracle to hear someone's  voice  hundreds of kilometers  away. In the late 1970s and early 80's researchers worked on "the network of networks.' The idea was to facilitate communication between two or more computers, "Inter-networking" hence remodeled to what we now know as the Internet. A score of years down the line social media connectivity is booming! Despite having this instant form of sharing moments and connecting to our loved ones  in real time, there is still a void, a craving for physical contact. Holoportation is an end-to-end audio visual virtual augmented reality tele-presence system that exploits the use of 3D technology capture and algorithms to reconstru...

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Pieoneers had a chance to engage in a captivating interview with philanthropist and social activist Nandini Kochar. She is the founder of Ray Of Hope Botswana. " Ray Of Hope Botswana was established in 2015 as a grassroots youth-run organisation with the pure purpose of educating and empowering underprivileged children and women in rural areas. Our team of committed high school and college volunteers have been running weekly educational programs for over 50 children at Gamodubu Village, including HIV/AIDs patients, rape survivors and orphans.  We recently started a woman empowerment social enterprise called, Hope for Her, wherein we tap into traditional artistry of rural Batswana women and sell handmade eco-friendly jewelry by them, ploughing back the raised funds into their community. Ray of Hope also has a branch in the UK, educating and empowering marginalized and financially deprived communities through tutoring and self defense classes. " - Nandini Kochar Nandin...

Mokgethi Thusang Pilane Poet Name:Tito Title: Pain I know the pain of watching you love him The pain of you detecting time's to call I know the pain of watching you rip of my heart With a lovely smile I know the pain of hearing you talk to him While I lay besides you naked I know the pain that melted away the love I had I know the pain of being suicidal because of you I know the pain, the pain of being empty Feeling inhuman The rage in your eyes when I asked about him It still trifles me I know the pain of never letting you go I know the pain the heart attack I nearly got when you compared my strokes to his The compliment that nearly sent me to my early grave I know the pain the texts that were never meant for me I know the pain of being blown off in public being ignored before family and friends I know the pain the sleepless nights you gave me when you and him fought The night's I walked miles just to comfort you I know the p...

"20 centuries deep, inside a fabricated lie, the truth is like rain to a desert, at best its a mirage"  - Yugen Blakrok (Tetra Tarantula) taken from  Return of the Astro-Goth !! Pieoneers Blog had a young minute to chat with one of the most lyrically gifted South African emcees, Yugen Blakrok.   How did your journey with Hip Hop begin? Heard WTC on tv, Salt n Pepa, Busta Rhymes. Discovered a whole culture. From Kanif’s dark, mystic, suffocated, distorted, abstract boom bap beats to your unmatched witty, poetic rhyming style, y’all form a formidable force. What is your creative process in making music? We feed off each other’s energies. Often, the concept’s inspired by Kanif’s beats; other times, the lyrics dictate the vibe of the sound. You come off as a very well read individual on esoteric ancient knowledge and unconventional science. How important is that knowledge in today’s world? It’s an alternative to the conditioning that’s b...

Battle Rap has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. From battling on street corners for street cred to a new possibility of pursuing it as a career on a main stage. Just like any other sport, battle rap is aggressively competitive and territorial in nature. My hood v Your Hood. My City v Your City. My Country v Your Country! This event is nothing short of that very element of dominance. Both countries put up the best of their lethal wordsmiths to go head to head in what will be another Southern Africa's most prolific and historic moment in battle rap. The Warzone in association with Lesotho's finest and leading battle rap league DirtMouth, present an overwhelming exciting card as follows; INTERNATIONAL BATTLES Osama Bin Chaplin (BW) v T.U.R.K (Lesotho) Prometheus (BW) v Verbal KingPin (Lesotho) Ill Law (BW) v Phizzykhor (Lesotho) Michael Horror (BW) v Anonymous (Lesotho)               LOCAL LINE UP Eto v Kro Chedza Moon v Banyezus...

I keep telling myself I can do better Feel better But... I still seem to be suffocating in this city But is it really the city squeezing the little life I seem to have left from me?  Or is it just maybe this life thing was never my thing I smile and laugh as hard as I can That ’ s the only way to drown out the sorrow that ’ s screaming from my soul  I needed peace I carved silence But I always put on hold My cries and pleads were just another voicemail message on God ’ s phone  So I took a blade and made love to my wrist The feeling was surreal I could feel my pain just ooze out And I wasn’t numb anymore Few one night stands with blade Turned into a violent relationship that lost spark  I don’t feel the love it gave me anymore I don’t feel the connection, we ’ ve lost touch Its not enough to drown out the dark anymore I guess now I need something more permanent to silence the demons in my head  But... But I still wan...

“... The Amberu Trap You With Desire, Lure You Into Feeling A Very Unquenchable Sexual Thirst For Their Perfectly Sculpted Bodies And Then Kill You. But Legend Has It, That They Will First Show You A Preview Of The Future Before They Launch Their Attack. It Will Come As A Dream And You Won’t Even Notice This. However, This Will Only Happen If You Embrace Their Initial Seductive Moves. That Is The End Of Our Seminar On The Lifestyle Of Amberu, Thank You All For Coming. The Book Signing Will Be Done Tomorrow At 1400 Hrs Right Here. See You Tomorrow Everyone.” The Well Renowned Dr. Pontsho Concluded. The 3Hour Long Talk Had Ended And Lucidin Hadn’t Heard A Single Word. His Time And Attention Were Long Since Generously Donated, To A Cute, Blonde Girl Named Karina, Before The Doctor Started Speaking. The Two Had Knocked It Off Quite Easily Since They Had Multiple Things In Common. For One, They Both Admitted To Each Other That They Weren’t Really At The Seminar For The Super Nat...

I Am Not A Christian, I Am Far From One. This Resulted From The Way In Which Christianity Was Introduced To Us And Used To Enslave Us For So Many Years. Even After Slavery Became A Thing Of The Past It Has Been Used To Oppress Us Generation After Generation. This Has Been Done Through Methods Of Institutionalization; Driving Us To Believe That Jesus Is White Which Is Very Instrumental In Getting Blacks To Resent Their Own Identity, Limiting Our Progress As The Human Race In Entirety By Having Scriptures That Violate Against Women Who In My Opinion When Given The Opportunity Could Raise A Civilization We Could Never Have Imagined Before And To Top It All Off, It Hinders Our Scietific Development In Scenarios Where A Brilliant Scientist, Trapped In Christian Doctrine, Won’t Pursue Certain Curiosities Because “Some Things Are Not For Man To Tamper With, They Are Reserved For God”. Just When I Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse, I Became Exposed To The Truth About How Tithes And O...

Botswana’s battle rap sensation Sandile Ndlangamandla prevalently known as Blain aka The Black  Warrior, will next week head out to the UK agaaain to spar in the newly formed CODE RED CULTURE battle rap league. He will be engaged in a verbal joust against one of UKs dopest battlers, CoJay. I personally think this battle here will steal the show from the headlining acts; Real Deal (USA) v Raptor UK. If you are in London make sure to catch the showdown happening on the 20 th of January 2018, at the Concrete Space, Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ, from 1300-2000hrs. Through battle rap we have seen Blain carry himself as a revolutionary. Besides being Botswana’s very first battle rapper to get booked overseas, it is undeniable that Blain is becoming an iconic and inspirational figure forging a trail that other local rappers will walk on, to get on international stages. The charismatic style of rap, the aggression and hard hitting lyrics added to his electrifying energet...