Poems by Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe
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I walk
Against the window of reality I walk I walk Restless In the city I walk and listen To our shipwrecks I walk and I listen To our afflictions and our faceless dreams I walk Driven by the hope of another age And I sometimes think that the past Became an aphorism And that life is going from word To deed The deed of loving and living In infinite courage I walk For existence is an uncertain journey A path to be found without fear Toward our inner depths And everything, everything Everything that pierces our hearts With blue light and peace Restless I wander the city I walk Restless I wander the city I walk freely I walk on the red tracks Of a new day and a fervent poem that could Help me again To imagine Sisyphus happy translated from French by Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe
It’s a story of DNA Got Africa in my veins Africa in my genes Too bad if it don’t please Got Africa in my nightmares Africa in my dreams My tears, my smiles The broken mirrors of my eyes Got Africa in my heart Love her with all my might
To stand up in full size Proud and treated as a queen I love Africa Emotional Got Africa Within my soul And I trust her My eternal translated from French by Sophie Mayer |
 Oho Bambe (c) Lea Desrayaud
Poet Drum, Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe called Captain Alexander sows notes and words of resistance and peace, memory and hope. He writes at the tempo of the heart, he inscribes his poems and his steps in the ones, essential, of his mentors and teachers of hope: his poetry sings the range of possibilities, the gift of oneself, the love and the revolt, the quest for the human, "nothing but the human" and the radical refusal to live "arms crossed in the sterile attitude of the spectator". He has published four books: ADN (Afriques Diasporas Négritude), Le Chant des possible (awarded by the Fetkann Poetry Prize and the Paul Verlaine Poetry Prize of the French Academy in 2015), Résidents de la République (Editions La Cheminante, essay written in "state of emergency" in 2016) and De terre, de mer, d’amour et de feu (Mémoire d'Encrier, 2017).
His first novel, Diên Biên Phù, was published in March 2018 by Sabine Wespieser Editeur, along with his new collection of texts Ci-gît mon coeur, (Editions La Cheminante). Founding member of Collectif On A Slamé Sur La Lune, Captain Alexandre is also a columnist (Africultures, Mediapart, Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire) and intervenes in schools and universities. Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe was made Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, by presidential decree of May 2, 2017. Captain Alexandre slams his lyrics on stages around the world. |
