ciroccoj | Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

Have been watching Cry Freedom with Daniel, who is doing Africa for social studies. There are some damned good quotes in that movie.

White cop: We have the law on our side!
Donald Woods: Well I have justice on mine!

Prosecutor: You are advocating violence!
Steven Biko: I am not.
Prosecutor: You call for a confrontation between blacks and whites!
Steven Biko: Yes, I do.
Prosecutor: And what is confrontation, if not violence?
Steven Biko: Well you and I are in a confrontation right now, but I see no violence here.

In other - and, oddly, somewhat related - news, I went to choir tonight. Damn, but I'd missed it. My two soprano buddies weren't there, and there were a whole bunch of new people, but the feeling was the same when we started to warm up and then when we got into the songs. Some lovely stuff there. And the next concert we're doing will be for Black History Month, so it's chock-full of all my favourite types of songs, with gospel, spirituals, and African folk songs. We've even got Nkosi Sikeleli Africa, the African Anthem. Which Daniel and I just finished watching, in the scene set during Steven Biko's funeral.

See? It all comes together.