Living Ancestors
Living Ancestors is a portrait exhibition by South African activist and artist, Gabrielle La Roux. The portraits are of women over the age of 100 from the island of Dominica, including the world’s oldest woman Ma Pampo who was 126…
DEMAIN (by Aimé Césaire)
Je suppose que le monde soit une forêt. Bon! Il y a des baobabs, du chêne vif, des sapins noirs, du noyer blanc; Je veux qu’ils poussent tous, bien fermes et drus, différents de bois, de ports, de couleur, mais…
Black History Season or 64 years of a lot of things
This year’s Black History Month died and Black History Season was born – it’s not quite clear how long the season lasts but most events are in October and November. The Inner London Borough’s have really made an attempt to…
Demolishing Naipaul
St Lucian poet and Noble Prize winner, Derek Walcott pulverizes VS Naipaul at a literary festival in Jamaica – I had so much pleasure reading this since I am unlikely to ever meet Mr Naipaul I was satisfied with the…
Learning to love “Red”
Rethabile introduced me to Geoffrey Philp a couple of months ago – now I visit his blog all the time. This poem he wrote reminds me of the conversation a few weeks ago here on Black Looks on xenophobia, belonging…
Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot
Via Poefrika This poem has a special meaning for me as I grew up in Nigeria being called “half-caste” and always despised the word and refused to acknowledge the term. Even today I meet Nigerians who continue to use the…
Billie Holi-DAY
A group of us including Marian of Marian’s Blog have re-named the March 17th Irish holiday “Billie Holi-DAY” to celebrate the forgotten Black people with Irish ancestry wherever they may be. Most people do not know but jazz vocalist Billie…
Happy birthday, Bob!
“Robert ‘Bob’ Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 — May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist. He is the most widely known performer of reggae music. Marley is regarded by many as a prophet of the…
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