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Abandoned Baobab

The Other Side of Silence...

About Me

The man who lost his shadow...say what????

My Interests

Unfolding Africa's Complexities Literature from the 4th world Writing in Sorrow Tears & Blood Way of Reciprocity Pan-African Connectedness Ancestral MindChannels Decolonising the Mind Erudition Films Foreign to Americans. Politics of Language Debunking Patriarchy Etymology Kikuyu Lexicon MauMau Land Reform Polemic Space Memory Gardens Mindseeds of Regeneration

I'd like to meet:

Midnight's Children

Music:

De La Soul & AZ remain two of my favorite artists. Growing up in the states as a young black man, my affinity with HipHop was inevitable and my divorce from it is forthcoming...I think. (but hope not). There is something defined esoterically as "REAL" Hiphop that is so friggin elusive, but profound once hearkened to...from a Dj. Premier beat...to Pete Rock horns...to Pharoahe Monch Verbal Dexterity...to Dilla Drums...etc etc etc!

Fela Kuti, Salif Kieta, Boukman Eksperyans, Olatunji, Baaba Maal, Tony Allen, Ismael Lo, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Amel Larrieux, Cassandra Wilson, Knaan, BJORK!, Amos Lee, Ali Farka Toure, Alice & John Coltrane, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lizz Wright, Oliver Tuki, Tony Allen, Boukman, J Live, Sade, Dj Premier, Dilla Dog sounds, Hugh Mesekala, Last Emp, Radio head, The Doors, Mile Davis, Yeahs Yeahs Yeahs, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Ani Difranco, Pj Harvey, J Davey, Orchestra Baobab,Julie dexter, Janis Joplin, White Stripes, Esthero, Vinia Mojica, Erykah Badu, Amel Larrieux, Zap Mama, Ndambi, L-Boggie, Nikka Costa, Massive Attack, Jeru Da Damaja, Roots crew, Zero 7, Portis Head, Madlib, Fertile ground, Res, Rakim, Kool G. Rap, Nasir Jones..etc etc

Movies:

Xala, Faat Kine, Mandabi, Moolaadé, La Noire de Borom Sarret, Tableau ferraille, Flame,Les Prix Du Pardon, Femmes aux yeux ouverts, Abouna, Yelen, Allah Toundu (God's Will, Guimba(The Tyrant, Ça twiste à Poponguine, Life and Debt, 500 Years Later, Amandla, Lumumba, Krik? Krak! tales of a nightmare, Dakan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amen!, Born into Brothels, Agronomist, Motorcycle Diaries, Tsotsi, Quilombo, Black Orpheus, The Language you Cry In, Maria Full of Grace, Spirited Away, Triplets De Bellevile, Whale Rider, Spike Lee Old Joints, City of god, Spring Summer Fall and Spring, Garden State, Dirty Pretty Things Rabbit Proof Fence, Sankofa, Revolution will not be Televised, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mabien, American Splendor, Station Agent, Frida...etc etc

Television:

abstaining mostly...but I will watch some futbol..its an African thing.

Books:

Ngugi wa Thiongo, Ayi Kwei Armah,Bessie Head ,Chinua Achebe, Nuruddin Farah, Ousmane Sembene, Wole Soyinka, Tsisti Dangarembga, Nadine Gordimer, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ben Okri, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Maryse Conde, Buchi Emecheta, Amos Tutola, Khalil Gilbran, Richard Wright, Bell Hooks, June Jordan, Kamau Brathwaite, Mariama Ba, Naguib Mahfouz, Salil El Tayyib, J.M. Coetzee, Chenjerai Hove, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Okot P'Bitek, Ferdinand Oyono, Camara Laye, Derek Walcott, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dambuzo Marechera, Alex La Guma, Nawal el Saadawi, Athol Fugard, Zakes Mda, Mongo Beti, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, George Lamming, Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Kenzaburo Oe, Jean Toomer, Abena P.A. Busia, Michell Cliff, Earl Lovelace, Lorna Goodson, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai & Kiran Desai...list grows at a rate that is exponential.

Heroes:

The Beautyfull Ones

My Blog

Dead are my people, gone are my people

Kahlil Gibran wrote the following during the First World War (1914 to 1918), a time when many places, including Lebanon, were struck by famine.  At the time of writing he was living in Boston in ...
Posted by Echolude on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:33:00 PST

Boast of Quietness

"Boast of Quitness is a passage used by Kiran Desai, in her introduction to her book, "The Inheritance of Loss" which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Amazing book!!!!!! Boast of Quietness Writings of...
Posted by Echolude on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:27:00 PST

Reminded of Self

I need to BE more patient and yielding with my relationships as I seek for a fraternal rythm with the universe. Ridding the pain of the past and loading the present with the sweet flavors of tomorrow ...
Posted by Echolude on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:11:00 PST

The way of Reciprocity

is my humble and often solitary path. I am simply about sharing a communion of knowledge...sharing an epistemic feast amidst travelling a path of honesty. So come correct with your own garden of acui...
Posted by Echolude on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:42:00 PST

Love After Love

Love After LovebyDEREK WALCOTT The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smi...
Posted by Echolude on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:36:00 PST

The Beautyfull Ones Are Not Yet

An excerpt from Ayi Kwei Armah's "The Beautyfull Ones Are Not Yet Born" describing the Kwame Nkrumah Era and our "Decolonization" period "There is something so terrible in watching a black man trying ...
Posted by Echolude on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:15:00 PST

Movements into new Beginnings

Moving into new beginnings like the flow of water in a natural, unending and beautiful manner. "Each thing that goes away returns and nothing in the end is lost. The great friend throws all thin...
Posted by Echolude on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:48:00 PST