Gladys Fahari Wambura's Page

Moin, Gladys,

thanks for the best wishes, same to you!

Well, indeed is it not really a trivial thing to keep a good balance between family, job and arts - that's why Andreas, me and some friends once invented the term "Night Shifter", for our arts are mainly developed when the family is asleep and the job is done. Of course, having a small child meens to be busy at night, and some jobs can be exhausting such as consuming all the power you have. I guess working with models surely can be!

Right, let's learn from each other here - across the distance - across our cultures!

:-) Carsten (-:

Hei!

I saw a message in which Fahari was to get in touch with Philo. What happened? I have just seen it... ha! ha!

Moin, Gladys,

thank you so much for your heartfelt response.

My "Sawubona Subculture" is a little pun on Dieter Huober (the founder of the Sawubona project) and my vivid attempts in discussions with him and the core team to influence goals and gimmicks of this site.

And since every powerful pun does have some real life output, you will find some large extend of the music I created actually not to belong to the official Sawubona Lyrics, but to feature several poems of African poets who took part at last years' "Poems Contest". In fact I found it to be the most thrilling thing here on Sawubona, to use internet technology to achieve direct interaction with artists and poets from other parts of our world, and to be able to communicate not only in blogs, but within art itself - or even to produce music that instantly reflects current real life or political issues as a direct response, or to try to give people in trouble positive feedback that we care. By making music over those poems, I got the unique opportunity to really feel like looking through their eyes at a different world of problems completely different from mine. Not a fictional world, but reality with concrete needs and hopes. It is so much more to let a poem resonate inside you to bring up some tunes, than just to read it...

By sharing your sight with us, by bringing pieces of your art to those forums, you'll enter (not only) my little subculture ;-)

.....oh - almost forgot to say, you are already inside ;-))).

:-) Carsten (-:

Sawubona Gladys

welcome to the platform of creativity.

i hope you will be able to express your self in this platform and inspire more generations with your poems.

great to have you on board.

Moin, Gladys, and welcome.

I was wondering if you might want to get in contact to Philo Ikonya (President of Kenya Chapter of PEN ) who is also contributing great poems and discussions here on this Sawubona site.

She has not only a personal page here, but a discussion forum.

All the best to you and your little child of course - I have two children (4 & 8 yrs.) and they really change life for the better!

:-) Carsten (-:

Hi Gladys, welcome to Sawubona!!! (:--))))!

It would be really great if you could write a story about "Songs Of Good Hope" and maybe you know also musicans which you could invite to the project?

Thanks, Dieter