Just like Space Cookies.
By BRIAN KAJENGO
This third book of Goodenough Mashego is one of the books
people couldn’t recognize easily.
The write stresses much about the suffering of the
communities in a democratic country. He pleads with mothers not to abandon
their children, and he went on to advice women to tell their children whose
their biological fathers are.
By mere looking at the book, you could hardly read it, but
the moment you start reading it your eyes glued to the book. The book has a lot
on it.
It is said don’t judge a book by its cover.
Just like Space Cookies is Goodenough’s third anthology
after his poetry anthology title Journey with me, and The Taste of my Vomit.
The stanzas of the poems, leaves the reader with many
questions and answers like; Goodenough
stresses more on ghetto live in kasi.
If he was a drunkard I would say he wrote when he was drunk.
Reading the
third anthology, title Just like Space Cookies.
Goodenough Mashego plays with words advocating for the
people of the community the ghetto life.
His poem titled when I am gone says it all to children whose
mothers don’t tell their children the whereabouts of their father.
His work is more like that one of a Zimbabwean author, the
Late Maurice Nyagumbo who wrote titled “Some of us must remain with the people”.
When ever you read Goodenough Mashego's people you could easily relate with
something happened yesterday.
Mashego belongs to Mapulaneng tribe which he is one of the
group compiling a Mapulanga dictionary.
He said, “Mine is to give voice to the voiceless. Who would
remain with communities if all of us move to towns? That is the reason I write
more about the ghetto life and the findings in it.”
Goodenough Mashego is a filmmaker, writer, columnist,
blogger journalist, rapper, political analyst, photographer, PR Practitioner,
Publisher, literary editor, 360 degree artist, and a civil society activist.
Mashego has his own company Ten Workers Media which he runs
from his home area Shatale in Bushbuckridge.
“My main aim is to expose these up coming artist from
deep rural areas like Bushbuckridge.” Goodenough Mashego said..JPG)
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