When does a person become an artist and not simply a person who at times creates art? In music it requires a certain attainment of skills to simply play music and then the line is formed as professional or an amateur musician, lines that do not necessarily reflect on one’s […]
Last year and much of this year I did very little posting on my website. But I read voraciously. I found myself not just reading newer releases but also books that had been out for decades that I had somehow missed. I tend to read a few books at once, […]
A good friend recently sent me a New York Times Style Magazine which was dedicated to the idea of friendship. There were thirty-two categories of friends. Some were somewhat silly to me like actor friends which could as well have been singer friends or electrician friends or doctor friends, you […]
Although I have been MIA from my blog action I have been actively writing, performing and teaching. I also have found myself, in these viral times Zooming through meetings and workshops and making use of several online resources. I’d like to recommend a few I became aware of through my […]
Mesotic for Kiilu freedom taKen by storm she Is graceful panther determIned to struggle revoLution the air she breathed Love her most Useful tool Kiilu was so much, so large, so vital, my words evade me. I cannot begin to describe my respect and love for this woman. Our friendship […]
My father was born February 8, 1926. He, but not his presence, left this planet June 19, 2011. Of the many things I love and admire about my father is the fact that he was the definition of what I consider a man. His manhood was not a […]
My father returned to Africa for a third time in 1979. This time he was the director and one of the writers in a team of people making a documentary about the liberation struggles in Southern Africa. They started out at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit which was […]
When I was a child when I thought of Africa I was pretty steeped in racist clichés . I had seen endless pictures of nearly naked Africans dancing around gigantic cast iron pots with trembling white missionaries cooking inside. I knew nothing of Benin Bronzes or Zimbabwe Ruins / I […]
The news seems to be such a flexible subject these days. North/East/South/West which direction distorts the best? Today I offer my take on the news informed by the African honey bees’ transcontinental story. As you may know, a Brazilian geneticist decided to breed hard-working African bees with mild mannered and […]
race definitions when i was a child race was brought to me in mouthfuls of differences and spit when i was a child there were the negroid the asiatic and the caucasian races and sometimes there were the semites to define the race of arab and jew […]
