liberation. writing resistance. revolutionary yoga. my honorable ancestors.
Music
fela anikulapo kuti, robert nesta marley, thelonious monk, miles davis, tricky, black uhuru, burning spear, blksonshine, salif keita, sizzla, gregory issacs, dennis brown, fertile ground, cassandra wilson, alice and john coltrane, meshell ndegecello, digable planets, badu, les nubians, boukman eksperyans, midnite, zapmama, ceseria evora, alpha blondy, orchestra baobab, oliver mtukudzi, linton kwesi johnson, miriam makeba, tabou combo, magou, jhelisa, the abyssinians, gil scott heron and brian jackson, busi mhlongo, nina simone, billie holiday, jimi hendrix, tracey chapman, omar, d'angelo, stevie wonder, bongo maffin, martin luther. . .
Movies
the price of forgiveness, sankofa, faat kine, city of god, wend kunni, abrouna, daughters of the dust, the agronomist, life and debt, ceddo, the motorcycle diaries, brightness . . .
Television
telepathic vision: faith ringgold, frida kahlo, jean-michel basquiat, diego rivera, renee stout, ras kwaku, selamewit mekonen, githinji, eessu, yeslioness, yinka shonibare, seydou keita, baye gaye, prospere pierre-louis, elizabeth catlett, wifredo lam, winston patrick, edourard duval-carrie, jileen diop, vincent van gogh, tayo adamolekun, ras terms, mati klarwein, margo humphery, edythe boone, marie johnson calloway. . .
Books
writers: yvonne vera, ousmane sembene, toni morrison, ama ata aidoo, ayi kwei armah, walter rodney, carole boyce davies, aime cesaire, maryse conde, jamaica kincaid, dambudzo marechera, sonia sanchez, jayne cortez, edwidge danticat, franz fanon, leon damas, derek walcott, kamau brathwaite, kwame dawes, nikki finney, buchi emecheta, chinua achebe, ngugi wa thi'ongo, bessie head, dennis brutus, michele cliff, jacques roumain, tsitsi dangarembga, efua sutherland, mariama ba, nawal el saadawi, bell hooks, ntozake shange, angela davis, amiri baraka, etheridge knight, jay wright, yusef komunyakaa, gloria anzaldua, junot diaz, elizabeth nunez, wole soyinka, malidoma some, robin d.g. kelley, w.e.b. dubois, james baldwin, zora neale hurston, jean toomer, gwendolyn brooks, toni cade bambara, june jordan, octavia butler, audre lorde, earl lovelace, c.l.r. james, ben okri . . .
Heroes
boukman, harriet tubman, ama ata aidoo, wangari maathai, ngugi wa thiong'o, walter rodney, ayi kwei armah, assata shakur, franz fanon, nehanda, malcolm x, robert nesta, shirley chisolm, huey newton, kwame nkurmah, patrice lumumba, thomas sankara, che guervera, ida b wells, fannie lou hammer, steve biko, mumia abu jamal, winnie mandela, mau mau, marcus and amy j. garvey, fela kuti and his mama! ..
University Of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville,Virginia
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: English: Black Global Literature, African Literature, Black cultural studies, gender
Clubs: n'YAM: a journal of Africana Studies
2004 to Present
Cuny Brooklyn College
Brooklyn,New York
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Africana Studies and English Literature
Clubs: Uhuru Sasa
About me: this daughter's geography:
text blood leaf tongue. the page is not a stranger. skin, fabric, soil. adrinka ayo. ayiti birth water. ouidah. my true love is africa. the continent, the possibility, the dream. the (post) colonial city in me. harare. rage and moon. marketplace and baobab tree. rebel mobility. bend at the womb shrine. indigo wanderer. casamance. travel a sort of mis-cheif, the only way to (un)know. spirit spit turn rum. orginal rastalivity. ogun bicycle for the cobra child. ganjablue. accra. once illuminated like the desert. erzulie danto. fire and wind, breath and transformation. the scales of maat. asmara. laughter of the gutter. vodun basement. brooklyn. volatile river. viscus ocean blood. grit and dust. ghettho shit and jasmine. myrrh mountainash kisses awaite you. lust as thick as dakar smog breeze.
motherland movements until the bone is bead.
so black beneath the see. two thousand seasons to be free.
Who I'd like to meet: black activist-traveler-yogis. and /or discontented yet bombastic burgeoning scholars sown from wildseeds. and/or artistic african peoples, however defined. and/or those wit baobab hair-dos.
hey my star! happy kwanza to the 3 of you! arrived very late & dead tired in bamako, mali last night for the semester. i'm sick right now but this shall pass as well.... hope to visit me daughta (yours in fact;-) mid or end of april in VA :-) one love peace sis
Greetings Sis! i miss u too! re-send your cell nb, i lost it... you should go to www.donotcall.gov, you register and it prevents telemarketers (for-profit commercial calls) from calling. i did it when i was in Va and it worked well. what's up sis? are you fine? i'm trying to come to the US (Maryland, Philly, UVA) beginning of april with a Malian-French film director who shot a documentary on the riots...will let you know no justice no peace! d.
Hey Empress Lady, I FOUND YOU MY SIS !!!!!! you'd better hurry and move me 1st place on your friend wall after Emperor Kwaku, of course;-) much love Jah Guide
