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kola@aalbc.com
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 371
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:42 am: | 
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Hey all....please share a few words about what you're reading
....we could all use some good recommendations.
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kola@aalbc.com
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 372
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:43 am: |
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LibraLinda in Ohio wrote:
Thanks for the welcome Kola. I read a wonderful book early in the month called "Leo Africanus" Amin Maalouf. Check out the reviews on Amazon. I recently finished both "Sula" Toni Morrison and "Gets No Love" Eric Pete both wonderful reads. Im currenty reading "Ida B" Karen E. Quinones Miller.
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Thanks Linda.
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kola@aalbc.com
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 397
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 09:01 pm: |
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This email is from Professor ASA HILLIARD:
Dr. Theophile Obenga published African Philosophy of the
Pharaonic Period in French in 1991.
It is a powerful book, that has just
been translated into English. There is nothing else like it.
As a
multi-genius, like his teacher and friend, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Obenga
shows pure mastery here. This book "tears the roof off". Using the ancient
texts, Africans speak for themselves, revealing thousands of years of
philosophy, and its companion, science. Moreover, Obenga documents the
common world-view or cultural unity among Africans, as well as language, and
science.
From now on, every African student of any academic discipline must now begin
at the beginning with Theophile Obenga. Anyone who writes about the history
of mathematics, astronomy, ethics, philosophy, science, sacred texts, etc.
must start at the beginning, in Africa, or must be seen as ignorant of the
beginning, or deceptive in their reporting. The Nile Valley beginnings do
not stand alone, but shares originality with less well known or well
documented African societies.
Asa Hilliard
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 12:46 pm: |
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I believe I read somewhere that John Edgar Wideman is working on a novel based on Frantz Fanon. Don't know if there's any truth to that, but his latest short story collection, God's Gym, features a story called "Fanon," which is about the disintegration of an American couple's interracial marriage while on vacation in the Caribbean. You know that Wideman's daughter who plays in the WNBA is the child of such a relationship. In the story, there's a faded portrait painted on the side of a barn which no one can identify.
There are a couple of brilliant contemporary Martinican writers right now; Edouard Glissant, who's written a book about Faulkner (picked it up but have not yet read it), and Patrick Chamoiseau, whose novel "Solibo Magnificent," set in Fort de France during Carnival, is an allegory about the death of Creole oral culture in Martinique. In other words, the teller of Krik? Krak! stories, who's been experiencing hard times of late, chokes on his own words during an antiphonal exchange with his audience. The novel is written in the form of a police procedural, and there's intentional symbolism in the brutality of the Francophone police (who are also Creole) toward the Creole-speaking villagers who witness the death, because they are not able to express the truth of their lives and their reality through the French language. It's translated from the French, from Creole, and something the author describes as "Freole," which I hear as a kind of Langston Hughes-influenced onomatopoeic language.
Here's what I'm reading. "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. Declare "jihad" on this speculative fiction (if you dare) and then read it and get back to me (I'm not referring to you, dear moderator). This guy sets the bar so high it's unbelievable.
Ask me if the "Precients" who survive the apocalypse, technology intact, are black people. Yes, they are. |
Askia
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 04:36 pm: |
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"Cloud Atlas"! You mean somebody around here's got some taste!
I'm reading "A Distant Shore" by Caryl Phillips. It's sort of laid back, bare and very deep. I would recommend it, because it's non-pretentious good literature.
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