MATATA

"Life is sweet, even on the street. Life is even sweeter without a bank account, with little or no money in my pocket and with little care for anything." Matata is prose poetry packed in a novella-in-flash by South Sudanese creative writer Victor Lugala.The protagonist, Matata, is a homeless African philosopher and flash fiction writer who sees himself as a bohemian artist and modern-day hippie, enjoying the freedom of the life he has chosen on the streets. He is taunted by the spirit of his dis