Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Jacqui the Poet

For me, poetry is not an assignment or a write-on-demand vocation. It's a calling, one I sometimes question, oftentimes ignore but when I do answer its always magical.

For me, poetry is not an assignment or a write-on-demand vocation. It's a calling, one I sometimes question, oftentimes ignore but when I do answer its always magical.

Jacqui the Poet, born Reamogetse Jacqueline Dichabe, is primarily a writer and her mother’s daughter. All else is secondary. She was born in a village, bred in townships and towns, and now lives in the cities of South Africa. She is an African through and through. A lover of music, theatres, literatures and intimate one on one conversations, she views life from a Spiritual and Mental perspective which is more important than physically dying. Almost 40 rotations around the Sun later, through journey in Life and even becoming an atheist when Life showed its ugly teeth… Jacqui returned to a complete and total belief in the 1 God through a beautiful piece of literature in the form of a book called The Prophet by the mystic and poet Kahlil Gibran. A mystic and poet herself, who traverses the world through sight, both spiritual and physical, JTP has found the word that was there in the beginning, the Word that formed the cosmos and human existence itself, to be her calling in this life.

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Richard Ali is a Nigerian writer whose poems were first published in 2008. He has served in the National EXCO of the Association of Nigerian Authors and sits on the board of Uganda’s Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation. A member of the Jalada Writers Cooperative based in Nairobi, his work has been published in African Writing, Jalada, Saraba Magazine and elsewhere. The Anguish and Vigilance of Things is his debut collection, was published in 2020. He practices Law in Abuja, Nigeria.