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    The Body Family
    The Body Family
    The Body Family
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    The Body Family

    By Hope Wabuke

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    This visceral and revelatory poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke digs deeply into a personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to life, articulating what it means to live in a Black female body navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateApr 12, 2022
    ISBN9781642597240
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      The Body Family - Hope Wabuke

      I.

      You want me to tell what was never mine to tell.

      —Juliane Okot-Bitek, 100 Days

      IF NOT DAVID

      when the British came

      they brought their guns

      & their Jesusthey took

      our oil & our diamondsthey sent

      our men to fight

      their wars in Europedid not

      send their bodies home

      Amin was eighteen

      he learned his lesson well:

      kill the other

      take what is his

      when Amin & his cronies

      drove the British out

      our country chaos

      votes ignored already

      Amin’s killings were called simply

      a natural byproduct

      of events

      his buddy Obote

      the new president promoted

      him said kill more

      but later when Amin’s killings grew too much &

      his buddy Obote said stop

      Amin went after him too

      took the throne

      & laughed

      no one can run he said

      faster than a bullet

      at times so many dead

      bodies were thrown

      into the Nile River the

      water stopped flowing

      Hitler Amin was fond of saying

      had the right idea

      : GOLIATH

      names given: His Excellency Idi

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