The Namibian

27 September 2019

A Namibian Poet, de O Sha'tikk Ku'ma'ran, has published the following poem online, gaining widespread attention, both positive and negative:

Animals are on the Move!

They say conscript the man,
But do they say conscript the stock?
They say we are an army,
But do they say what we do?

Violence has been taught,
Territory has been regained
Humans they fight,
Though bleak and weak

In the night they go
But who should go
Fences are broken
Communication is broken

Humans see animals -
Out of their conservancies
They see the damage done
That animals have done