HOMELAND

Unathi shares his soulful journey home.

WORDS UNATHI MAGUBENI

SOMETIMES WE FIND A HOME AWAY FROM HOME. I FOUND IT WHEN I WAS FULL OF ANXIETY, UNSURE AND SEARCHING. I had quit a corporate career a year earlier, cut up all my clothes and saved only two tracksuit pants, two T-shirts and a jacket. I felt claustrophobic. My spirit yearned for more. I was full of uncertainty, yet my feet itched to walk the road for long days and nights. I experienced a pull that I couldn’t resist. Destiny whistled curious melodies drawing me to her embrace and I had to oblige. I took off my shoes and went across the Great Kei River to the rural heartland in the region of the Mpondo people, my people. The world didn’t make sense. I had to trust what cannot be seen.…

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