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Alexandra is a poem by South African poet and writer Mongane Wally Serote.Serote’s poems about places particularly his Alexandra poems grapple with the problems of squalor violence death destitution exploitation and the Black People’s quest for identity and a sense of community. In the poem Alexandra the speaker’s inner-child addresses his ‘mother'; Alexandra my beginning was knotted to you just like you knot my destiny.