When the Soul Awakens

By Dumi Senda

He has performed in honour of former SA President Nelson Mandela at the invitation of the BBC and has been a guest speaker at the United Nations, Geneva and the UK Houses of Parliament.

Dumi appeared on stage and performed with the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has gained international reputation for inspirational poetry performances, motivational speaking and Arts and Culture education. Dumi has been published in several countries including Ghana, Zimbabwe, Germany, Canada and Switzerland.

He has been a speaker for some of the world's leading institutions including Planet Aid, Africa Children's charity and Oxford University. Dumi is a regular panelist on BEN TV, the largest TV Network for Africans in the Diaspora, and has been interviewed by BBC Radio Leicester and BBC 3 Counties.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dumi Senda
• Release date: May 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301237074

Dumi Senda

Dumi Senda is an internationally acclaimed award winning poet, children's author, story teller, humanitarian and speaker hailed as the Voice of the Voiceless. He has performed in honour of former SA President Nelson Mandela at the invitation of the BBC and has been a guest speaker at the United Nations, Geneva and the UK Houses of Parliament. Dumi appeared on stage and performed with the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has gained international reputation for inspirational poetry performances, motivational speaking and Arts and Culture education. Dumi has been published in several countries including Ghana, Zimbabwe, Germany, Canada and Switzerland. He has been a speaker for some of the world's leading institutions including Planet Aid, Africa Children's charity and Oxford University. Dumi is a regular panelist on BEN TV, the largest TV Network for Africans in the Diaspora, and has been interviewed by BBC Radio Leicester and BBC 3 Counties. His debut children's book "The Day the Sun promised to Smile FOREVER!" has been published in Geneva with all the proceeds donated to Innocence in Danger, a children's Foundation started at the initiation of the UNESCO Director General. Dumi Senda is a spokesperson for the following; Children's welfare Domestic Abuse Awareness for Young people Peace and Community Cohesion Racial Harmony, Equality and Diversity Culture Awareness for Businesses and Humanitarian Organisations in Africa

Book preview

I’m here not to showcase sadness

Or to fill with pennies the charity hat

Here not to evoke or provoke emotion

Or to guilt play

I’m here to brick lay

Here for hope

Here for justice

For the children of the world

I am

Here not to preach

but to practise

I’m here for hearts to unzip

Before mouths open to speak

Here for this is it, my calling

Wallets before planets

our falling

I’m here so you can be

So we can be

So they can be

I’m here

Yes I am

Here and now

So they know not a frown

The face of death

Is too ugly for children to face

I’m here to wipe the tears

Could not be anywhere else

A Bit Of Poetry

A bit of poetry

A bit of poetry, what they say

A bit of poetry, what they call it

Just a bit, yes a bit of poetry!

Hold on a bit, the bit they refer to

Cannot be from my bit of the world

For you see where-off I stem

Poetry moves mountains and drowns seas yes

More vicious than bubbling magma it is

A bit of an enigma I admit

But only to a deadbeat few who refuse

Poetry has the power to blow any fuse

I refuse to be labelled a poet a bit of poetry

who spans

Call it floetry or a bit of fun

Then pray my words do not give you a bit

Of a nosebleed like a boxer, son!

Yes my verses are mazes, not because