Fiction Friday: The Begging Bowl – Part 3
Read Part 2 Here Wilson’s career in Nigeria began at age thirty with his employment as a kind of managerial watchdog for a British retail firm. The company had established itself earlier in the century by engaging in the trade of palm oil for use in the manufacture of...
Fiction Friday: The Begging Bowl – Part 4
Read Part 3 Here The faces of the children captured his gaze before his eyes could wander over what he insisted was not bronze but pure gold. The faces were finely wrought with all the realistic details of the human form, down to the very lines around the joints of...
The Game – Part 3 of 3
Read Part 2 Here Cochran stopped by the lamplight, and peered toward what was total blackness from where Ruby half-knelt. From somewhere, he had produced a police flashlight, maybe what he had punched her with before he dragged her out of the jewelry shop. The...
Nigeria: An Experiment in Pan-Africanism – Part 4 of 4
Read Part 3 Here The theme of this three-part series is the significance of Nigeria: to Africa, to African Americans, and to the world in general. And no discussion of Nigeria’s significance can be conducted without a discussion about the political/philosophical...
The Africa-centric Worldview – Part 3 of 4
Read Part 2 Here Afro-Futurist art work by Oakland artist Joshua Mays. When I speak, or read or write about Africa, I am keenly aware that this word, which is also a place, means different things to different people. For many, it is one of the world’s seven...Buy The Book
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Fascinating photo from the Germany vs. Egypt beach volleyball match at the Olympics.
THE STORM IN A BLACK WOMAN'S MIND
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Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year
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"This is a situation that happens all across the country," Sen. Tim Scott said, "whether we want to recognize it or not."
Here's a bit of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.
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With all the recent stuff that has happened in society, it has really taken a toll on me mentally/emotionally. My heart is hurting and there's nothing I...