MAAFA David Dabydeen the Welsh Rugby Union threatened

the Welsh Rugby Union threatened to ban him twice at the height of his career

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MAAFA David Dabydeen the Welsh Rugby Union threatenedMAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. MAAFA undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Voelker Award for Poetry Collection Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the