Simon Mol.
‘Golgotha’, Christian Mystics hold, ‘is the mountain of victory’.
...it is the nature of ‘Man’ to have multiple faces. It adds thrill to the art of living. In this respect I have more than one face; there are those who like me as an artist and hate me as an African. There are some who like me as a footballer and hate me as a social critic. There are those who like me as a poet, and hate me as a journalist; the list goes on.
....yet, if I had a false face I would be in jail after seven years of sojourn here. For how long can one hide in a foreign land… particular in a place where you are not liked? I would have been exposed with delight by my enemies whose number seems to be growing by the hour. The real reason that can send me to jail here, if it’s a crime, is poverty… real and racially imposed, which I shoulder with the patience of a sacrificial lamb. In a nutshell, this is the prize for daring a system… an ideological tradition that feeds on the humiliation of ‘the other’. My ‘would-be-assassins’ are testing the ground. This, I can declare, adds thrill and further uncertainty to an already existing suspense.
‘Golgotha’, Christian Mystics hold, ‘is the mountain of victory’:-
