I’ve been busy working with friends from around the world on a new anthology to be launched next month. Song Of Sahel brings together some of the artists who collaborated on Every Child Is Entitled to Innocence as well as many new and interesting artists. Song Of Sahel is unique as it is not merely poetry and prose but will include paintings, artwork, music and photography along with poetry and prose.
I found reading your post on the Sahel to be brilliant. I will reblog this post so even more people who are interested in the Sahel can check out and read your post and blog. After reading your post I find I am extremely impressed with how magnificent your post is and how informative. This will help a great many people to develop a further understanding of what is happening in the Sahel. I learned more specifics myself which were helpful and I thought I did my research. It is a pleasure to meet you this way. Here’s to the success of the Song of Sahel and the helping of the children and their families and all the people in the Sahel. ~the secret keeper~
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Song of Sahel SOS
Children cannot eat words; blinded by starvation, they cannot see pictures. Yet, we are calling on artists, poets, writers and photographers to join us in a Song Of Sahel. created by Niamh Clune
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http://ontheplumtree.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/a-song-of-sahel-sos-calling-for-submissions/
I have contributed a poem to the Anthology for the Song of Sahel. It is titled: “do i know what hunger is?” My answer would be, not in any way close to what the children and people of Sahel have experienced and continue to experience. The starvation and the soil that will not grow the crops they need to eat in order to survive. They need our help and they need it now.
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What is the exact literary meaning of ‘Sahel’?
Tahir, the definition that comes up most frequently is this: Sa·hel (s-hl, -hl)
A semiarid region of north-central Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Since the 1960s it has been afflicted by prolonged periods of extensive drought.
It is pronounced: sa(short a) and hail (like you were hailing a cab or ice formations falling from the sky). Sahel (sa-hail)…
It is also an Arabic word meaning “border” and it is also defined as a cultivated variety of potato.
Hope that is what you were looking for.
Have not forgotten about your son’s poems. It has been rather crazy lately but I keep him forefront in mind. So if you remain patient I will evenually be writing to you.
Thanks for posting this, it’s really interesting.
It is a great project working toward helping out the children and families in The Sahel. The Song of Sahel Anthology will send all of its proceeds toward helping them out in the Sahel. Helping to feed the children to bring them back to their health and into saving the children’s lived. Thank you for your interest.