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Interlude: The Dead Will Live Eternally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2024

Edited by
Carolien Stolte  and
Su Lin Lewis
Carolien Stolte
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Su Lin Lewis
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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Summary

For many years I have not wept

not because my eyes are dry

or my heart is stiff with cold

but this time unawares

my head and heart could not endure

my tears moistened the morning paper

A black man white of heart

murdered by a white man whose heart is black

But it is not the murderer who has been killed

Lumumba will live forever

Lumumba died to live eternally

Today this earth is not for the black white man

but for all

white, yellow, brown, black

Now the air is filled with Lumumba

for Lumumba stands for freedom

Dipa Nusantara AiditTransl. Bintang Suradi

Dedicated to the Second Conference of Afro-Asian Writers Indonesia Sings of Afro-Asia (Jakarta: League of People’s Culture Indonesia, 1962).

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The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism , pp. 143 - 144
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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