Maji means water in the Swahili language, Defining myself as something simple as water has a huge significant meaning to me. There’s a particular body of water located on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia that I speak of. Because in 1619, it’s well-documented that it is the very location in America that the English settlers first brought the Indigenous African people, who were kidnapped from their homeland, to live a life of enslavement.

Lately I haven’t been having good days. You should know that because of this Covid-19 pandemic, our movements at this prison have been severely limited. We been lucky to have no real outbreak of the virus in the institution but the stress behind being lockdown has reached a boiling point.