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Peace Nganwa: Can you believe, I, of all people, was actually inspired to write a poem about this "African-ness". It's called I am NOT an African. The title is inspired by a passage from Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana and your own poem entitled "I am an African" - which doesn't seem to touch me as much as it seems to have touched some of your website guests ... I guess it's my form of rebelling against "Westerners" refusing to distinguish between the different countries in Africa and 'forcing' everyone to be an African - whatever that is... So, at first sight it would appear to be a rejection of what you wrote but it's my demand to be seen as a nationality within Africa.

Akua Ejisu: I love your web site. Period. Lots of interesting things to see. ... Its hard to drag myself away from your website!

Ann Antonie: Your website is enriching and inspiring. Your spirit so free as the birds and yet so strong as the african lion wandering aimlessly under the african skies! It is wonderful to be associated with you. Long live the african soul!!

Lynda Benninger: I'm from Formosa, Ontario, Canada - a librarian. I absolutely love your poetry. What a beautiful person you are! Your poetry is absolutely amazing. I would like to get some of your books for the library I am supervisor in. Keep up the good work.

Angela Pinilla Urzola: I like the metaphorical style in your book. I did not know you have a website. I did not know you were African. You make me remember that time in which I was in Kenya. I loved to see lions there.

Marianna Ofosu: I came across your poem (I am an African) and would be interested in printing it in the first issue of Leverage, a think- tank magazine focused on the African Diaspora. The issue will be distributed at Sullivan Summit VII in Abuja to some 3,500 delegates.

Wally Schwim: Thanks for the new poem (I Know A Place In Africa). It gave me goose bumps as I read it for the first time! Images jump out at me, memories are stirred and I want to be there again. A wonderful but to me almost melancholy rhythm echoes throughout.

Paul: I have just read your poem and all I can say is 100% true, all my family feel the same. Thanks for the reminder of home.

Angus Fraser: And the seasons mark my changing moods (from I Know A Place In Africa)... this is Africa, I can't tell you how accurate this is for me. Winter in the Okavango Delta brings different moods to me, as does the winter light in the Cape. Thunder storms brewing, which we don't get in the Cape, or the lightning. The smell of the first rains in the Makgadikgadi Salt pans. I am African, there is no place in the world that I could live.

Louise Armstrong: What can I say, I am an African made me cry. I have always called myself an African.... confusing most of my friends and colleagues because they think of Africans as black. Your poem took me home and yes I could feel the beat of Africa and rhythm in my soul.

Dorette Steenkamp: Fantastic Articles online! Thanks!

Gideon Schutte: We don’t know each other and I have been to your website after a friend in Canada (ex Saffie) send me your poem I am an African. Its amazing and I would like to know what royalty fee would you charge if I use it as part of an artwork – probably silkscreen. [Wayne: No royalties necessary, just acknowledgement of the source if possible]

Tony Wright: I re-read this today. Thank you for writing it and, more so, for sharing it; it rings so true.

Melanie Cannan: Friends is Disturbing – in that it highlights something so precious and one realises how much one tends to take people for granted! In fact I am going to send a couple of this poems to my friends right now! Lived Life True - This is so beautiful and brings to mind all those odes to mothers (excuse any hint of sexism) essays.

Kim Candy: Congratulations what a wonderful Poem you made me so homesick. Why do always feel this way? I have never outgrown my love for the years I grew up in Rhodesian and South Africa. I feel privileged to have grown up on that dusty hot soil.

Bruce: Hi. Loved your Dreams of Gold prologue. I have been visited very frequently by different Praying Mantis recently and did a search to discover the significance of these visits and stumbled onto your site. Interesting.

KK: Just wanted to drop a line about your painting, "Fairest Cape". I am sure you don't know this, but I look at it, daily. It is my desktop image .. and it floods me with memories of seeing it in person. You really captured its beauty.

Di Van Dyk: Have just read your poem, Swahili Spice - while searching for poems on Africa. I could smell the market in Stone Town. Thank you!

Margi McAlpine: I do Angel workshops under the name of Angel Connection. I am trained by Diana Cooper of the Diana Cooper School of Angels and Ascension. I would like permission to use your poetry on my website. [Wayne: Sure, no problem, so long as you acknowledge the source]

Adriaan: I read your poem on your website and am moved by the emotion of the words. I too am an African living in China right now, I am busy setting up a website called go2krugerpark.com and would like to know if I may use the poem on my front page.

Wally Schwim: I am still feasting on your poems, and it will take some time to get through them all. You have been very prolific over the years, and I see you experiment a lot with styles methods and subjects. I share your interest of the origins of the current geography and fascination of the dessert. Wonderful! I (and many others it seems) believe at this stage your finest work is "I am an African". I choke each time I read it, and shall definitely print a copy to frame! You are indeed a fine inspiration for our rainbow youth, though few may follow or even understand. Please don't stop what you do.

Wally Schwim: I visited the website and read your wonderful poetry. Its refreshing to read poems with rhythm and rhyme and the spirit of our land. The feelings you expressed seem to come strait from my own heart, (but maybe I'm more cynical) I was was thus not surprised to find out with tears in my eyes that you were born in the same town as me. A brother that I never met.

Marina du Preez: I just stumbled onto your website through looking at 'mountain view cottage and it felt as if I was intruding into some strangers personal life, but one feels at peace after being in 'your presence' after a minute or so and after that just lose track of time...thank you. You are truly an amazing person. wow.

Piet Vermeulen: I share much of your sentiment regarding Africa, except for the fact that I am not very optimistic ...I spotted quite a number of African related poems I would have liked to use as supplementary material to my photography.

Carole Wooldridge: I have just read your poem, I am an African. It brought tears to my eyes. It is absolutely beautiful. You have captured the thoughts and feelings of so many of people I know living out of Africa. Thank you for sharing your brilliance. (Australia).

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