2017

OF QUEENS AND KINGS AND INDEPENDENT NATIONS

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The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
The best payback against Colonialism is not to throw powerless insults at their monarchy and blame them for all your self-made failings, but to develop your nation until you rival them – and surpass them.
China did it. India is doing it. African countries, when are you going to do it too??? Surpass them and you will shut them up without you even saying a word. What is holding Africa down is in Africa. It is not in Europe.
Build your perfect system and you will live forever as Kings and Queens in the circle of nations. The British monarchy can continue to live and exist – why should that matter to me? Their existence or non-existence, their happiness or sadness, won’t change a thing in Africa or the condition of Africans. Instead, what the world needs now, and desperately, is a productive and highly developed New Africa. The dream of our Nkrumahs. And it can only be done FROM WITHIN.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

ERGÄNZUNG

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Wenn es etwas in mir wär,
das latent und schlummernd ist
und mein Verstand es vergisst…

Etwas, was komplett anders ist,
als das, was ich alles sonst bin,
und bestünde fast aus anderem Sinn

Eine verborgene Macht in mir drin
darauf wartend, geweckt zu sein,
flüsternd „Ich bin Dein, Du bist mein

ergänzendes Teil – Wir sind nicht allein.“
Wenn diese in mir wohnende andere Art
Form nehme würde, wäre sie zart,

zärtlich stark, weich, denn ich bin hart.
Es hätte Deine Art, das Gegenteil von mir –
Sähe aus und wäre wie Du ungefähr.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der Deutschen Dichtung

ALIEN, YOU’RE MY BABY

~ Che

Strange woman
Something about you
You’re like an alien
And yet you make me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

Sax solo

Your rhythm, My rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm…

Beautiful alien
And when You’re hurting
It hurts me deeply
And it just makes me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

Sax solo

My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm

Sax solo

Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby, My Baby…

Repeat

Sax Exit
With adlib
Hedabedabe..
Hedabedachapechapedaba…

Repeat

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

A BASE

~ Che

Flower needs earth
Or water
Or tree
Flower needs something
To grow on.

Flower without base
Is an idea without implementation.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

WIEDER

~ Che

Vogel flieg
Dem gebrochenen Flügel
Entgegen
Der Schlag des Aufpralls
Der Krach des Brechens
Die Atemlosigkeit des freien Falls
Die harte Landung
Und dennoch freut sich das Herz.
Morgen fliegst Du wieder.
Ich auch.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

DAS NÄCHSTE OPFER

~ Che

Das Herz ist Natur
Immer am Sterben und immer am Sich-Entfalten
Ist eine Blume
Immer am Sich-Umblättern
Ist ein Universum
Immer am Explodieren und am Abkühlen
Ist eine Schlange
Immer am Winden
Am Häuten
Am Lauern
Voller tödlichem Gift und heilender Kraft
Und immer bereit, das nächste Opfer hungrig zu verschlucken.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

Alien Coming Soon

~ Che

I was at the ruins of Eppstein Castle last Sunday, shooting the Music Video for “Alien You‘re My Baby“

Coming soon.

Album: First Nature – Che Chidi Chukwumerije
1.
Strange woman
Something about you
You’re like an alien
And yet you make me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

2.
Sax solo

3.
Your rhythm, My rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm…

4.
Beautiful alien
And when You’re hurting
It hurts me deeply
And it just makes me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

5.
Sax solo

6.
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm

7.
Sax solo

8.
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby, My Baby…

9.
Repeat

10.
Sax Exit
With adlib
Hedabedabe..
Hedabedachapechapedaba…

11.
Repeat

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Happy Anniversary

~ Che

Wow. Who would have thought?… it’s 5 years already.
I started this blog with the intention of posting a poem a day for a whole year – and I did that thtoughout 2013.
I wonder if I should do it again in 2018… 🙂

LOVE WITHOUT AMBITION

~ Che

There is still so much to draw from
So much love
It becomes easy if
You don’t pair it with Ambition.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

MODES THEORY

~ Che

The theory that some people are good and some people are bad; some people are dependable and some people are unreliable; some people are weak and some people are strong; etc, – is false.

The proper recognition is that you are dependable to some people and unreliable to others; some people experience your good side, some suffer your bad side. In some situations you are strong, and in some situations you are weak.

You are full of theories, but in reality you are just a bunch of modes, like your mother nature herself.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije