I Just Know - Poem by Mwalimu LAKHPIN

I know how it really feels

To be a bastard and piece of shit
To accommodate unsuitableness
And always enduring.

At least I now know
How to truly love
When you’re a strange personality
And everyone is avoiding you.

I know fighting against oneself
Being on a life-earning battle
That you fully know you won’t win
And you keep the guts to fight.

I know how it really feels
For an unmended broken heart
To be a solitary subsister
Just to experience it’s inmost.

I know when to quit
When you don’t even want to,
I know where to hide
When you have nothing to hide.

I know how to outcry
When everyone is around
And none of them ascertains.

I know how to believe
When I’m believing nothing
Just to restrain the accusals
For the next day’s repose.

I really know how it feels
Looking moneyed and felicitous
While you’re a famishing solivagant,
I really know and comprehend life.

I know how to come back
When you really haven't left,
For I mastered how to hold
If you've got no other choice.

I know what to lie
To those who only believe lies
And fear facing the truth
Just to hide their true colours.

I never can't obnigate
That life is about choices
That one lead on their own
Before they belong to the norms.

I just know what I don't know
Just to make my circles proud
And feel what I don't feel
Just to fit their rude stance.

I know the ups and downs
Of incurable dreams
That haunt you for a lifetime
And never allow you to dream.

I know why I'm just me
And know why I don't mind
For I'm that bird in the dawns
That knows well people's venom.

I know I know what I shouldn't know
For they don't know how to know that
But I delight in knows of knowing.

I truly know what it is
To belong where you’ll never belong
Just to belong in the moment.

Tags| Intero y'umwige, Basote Jam, Lakhpin

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LACO, A Customized Collaboration Space for Lakhtrem Supporters and Friends Opened. (Tremtion)

Lakhtrem Collective (LACO) officially Tremtion is a growing space enrolling friends of arts and supporters of both Lakhtrem Productions and Basote Jam program. Friends who join contribute and help Lakhtrem by producing events, spreading their work worldwide, fundraising, supporting rehearsals, promotion, donations, sponsoring content production, advices, referrals, etc. 

During an interview with Lakhtrem's Creative Director on why instating the collective , Emmanuel Muhire said: " We can't abnegate the fact that everything we have achieved was made possible by our friends who got our back from the beginning. We needed to make sure that our supporters are given a reasonable space to interact, plan together and share good practices concerning the boost of our organization's growth. Although we started it, it is now a self-governed and important body in every initiative we undertake." 

Lakhtrem is an initiative founded to create, produce and spread the arts that incite critical thinking, creativity, social wellness and harmony having been in operation for eight years to date. 

Anyone who is willing to join the growing community can DM to their social media pages (Facebook or Instagram) or follow through the below button. 

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Cage Of All Time - Poem by Mwalimu LAKHPIN

Sometimes I forget who I am
Trying to get along with myself
Yet every morning I wake up
Recalling all my deepest sorrows
And the darkest days of my days.

I truly wish I can be more than me
I chase dreams like everyone does
I pretend that I’m a whole person
That I can sharply hide my oppressions
Lying about me but never to myself.

The insane part is who I really am
In regards to whom I once was
Such guy who endured the past
I know nothing about him, frankly

But all I see is just me and I.

No matter how hard I try to change
My personality never ceases to haunt me
My mind has become a fit to society
But they only see the one I once was,
A good berk of the decades.

I’m in a war that nobody else realizes
Due to the innermost battlefield
And I’m confused like nobody else
To the extent that my merits rot
No clue on who to really showcase.

Time change, years come and go
Cloned, still dreaming same stances
Solitude is still my only bliss
Talking to none but the lone man in me
Weighing just how much we’ve spoken.

No matter how determined I try
My luck keeps running against me
My mind urges to keep moving
That I will get nowhere anyway
That I deserve nothing but starve.

No matter how bothersome I get
The fact remains my key reminder
That I’m a forlorn loser for life
That I’m a genius in our inner life
That I’m a lesson to the worlds.

No matter how deep I behold
I’m still carrying the same load
No matter how on I can move
I’m still in the same practices
Same place and same tears.

Dreams about dreaming
With endless worries for myself
That someday I would live
And forget that I never lived
Then abruptly die with no trace.

Tags | Intero y'umwige, Basote Jam, Lakhpin

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Spotlight: Meet Namabiha, The Rising Comedy Star in Kigali

From Nduba sector in Gasabo district, the 21 years old Patrick Habimana a.k.a Namabiha is an aspiring comedian, sketch writer, impressionist and stage performer in the evolving comedy industry of Rwanda. 

In a short conversation with one of the Basote Jam representatives, he invoked support from potential individuals who would invest in his talents, his eagerness to learning and exploring new forms of media and experimenting new techniques to spice his performances as long as he is bestowed heed. 

"I used to be an actor in high school and the reactions from the public motivated me that I was a humorist. I once participated in a sector comedy show from which we won a prize and from there, I decided to make it a career one day. Since 2014, this has been my very longed dream", said Namabiha. 

Patrick's extraordinary talents rose in 2014 when he begun to write his own stories, some of which he has produced onto his YouTube channel namely "NAMA MEDIA TV". He aspires to become one of the leading comedians in the country looking to leverage his global reach until his videos would appear on big platforms such as Netflix and alike or other big screens. 

To learn more about Namabiha's work and his team, check out his social media pages or contact him through +250780499978. 

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