Simon Mol

A POLISH LESSON FOR THE U.S. POLICE

By Simon Mol - Published by Metropol (Warsaw), October 21, 2004

Simon Mol conversing with Polish Police during a demonstration in Warsaw

August 12 2004 was to be the last day for 25-year-old Peter Ayompeuh Njang. With a dream of becoming a medical doctor, exactly 85-days after landing in the US from Cameroon, Njang paid a visit to his sister at another end of the City of Silver Spring to seek help in getting a job. By a twist of fate he missed the sister. Unschooled about events he went peeping through the window of his sister’s apartment, thinking perhaps she hadn’t heard the bell. Just then a police patrol car pulled up. In the presence of four witnesses; The police, Njang, God and the devil, three things transpired in rapid succession; 1). Something went lethally wrong, 2). Police officer Candice Marchone fired a shot and 3). Njang dropped dead. ‘

WHO WANTS TO BE A MINISTER?

Simon Mol Published by Metropol (Warsaw): September 7th 2004.

“Who has not lied? Who has not stolen? when we commit such acts, not as a lifetime strategy but as a temporary means for our survival, I think we could be forgiven. Especially when they do not directly affect others. And if indirectly, the effects are minimal.”

Honestly I don’t recall whose quote this is. But the words I do remember. This is evidence that the most important thing in the life of a human is his work. It could as well be a contribution so small that it is remembered only by a nation, a community, or just an individual..

Simon Mol at London's Hampstead Theater!

On Friday October 29 and Saturday, October 30, 2004, Exiled Writers Ink! a London-based organization that aims to facilitate the wider dissemination of work by writers in exile and to ensure they have a platform, will be sponsoring a live presentation by Moleke Mo-Njie (Simon Mol) at the famous Hampstead Theatre in London, England.

The presentation is part of the organization's "European Exiled Voices project" whose goal is to enable exiled writers living in Brussels, Rome, London and Warsaw to explore their new diasporic spaces in writing and to perform their work together in London Warsaw and Ferrara. The London part of the project will take place from 26th October 2004 and culminate in a seminar and live literature performance on Saturday 30th October.

Reflections on being African in Poland

Article written in December 2001 for a book by the Polish Humanitarian Action on Refugees in Poland.

Ja w Polsce!… Hmmm. (Me in Poland!.... Hmmm)

Time. What a mystery! How it bridges distances! Early last year I went for a walk in £azienky Park. My companion pointed at the monument of Henryk Sienkiewicz and asked me,

“Do you know who he was?”

“No.” Came my reply.

“He wrote Quo Vadis” she went on.

“Ah!” I exclaimed, “I remember now!”

And we started talking about it.