Known mostly as a forced concubine of Osama bin-Laden Kola Boof is a poet and author who joined us this morning for a discussion of her work and the struggles toward pan-African unity. Senfo Tonkam was back with us to also discuss these and related issues but also to share his experience as a…
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The “evangelists of social media,” according to Malcolm Gladwell, want us to believe that the revolution we all want has simply been awaiting Twitter or Facebook accounts. And having now achieved them by the hundreds of thousands these evangelists would have us believe that success – political, economic or social – is inevitable. But all this…
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Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience. Her point was that to dismiss that particularity with the narrow, anecdotal tale of one’s own success was to damage the potential to interpret the reality of a broader community. To separate the conditions of Black people broadly…
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