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Selected material for “Amiri Baraka: Somebody Blew Up America” includes House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties and Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin: A Scrapbook of the Twenties.
Rhonda Ray is out there at artfullyyourz.com; we have her here in “Rhonda Thompson: Hip Hop Poetry Jam.”
The Nsukka Group of the “Uli Aesthetic” was my ‘sequel’ after experiencing the communication skills of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both of these ways of visualization share the concept of the symbol used for communicating specific messages. This technique flies in the face of the need for most properly assimilated “visual artists” to do “whatever” and be mysterious and non-deterministic. You can sell paintings to a “larger market” when your painting is “whatever” the customer wants—because the customer is always right.
Found this great essay/post at by Dr. Ernest N. Emenyonu. It shows, again, how intimately detailed and systematic the dismantling of non-colonial African cultures be making colored folks that think they are African. There is more to being African than recognizing location and seeing skin color. What is mistaken as a cop out by we folks that live not on the continent is covered in lingual detail by Dr. Emenyonu.