news from kintespace.com ::: Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rethabile Masilo lives in France. He’s the father of two and enjoys playing soccer, writing, and cooking. He’s co-editor of Canopic Jar, and has been previously published in Orbis, Canopic Jar, Bolts of Silk, The Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, iBhuku, Sethala, and Ascent Aspirations in the summer of 2007.

His writing is influenced by his native Lesotho, southern Africa, and the events that have shaped the sub-continent as a whole: apartheid, Sharpeville, Soweto in 1976, the imprisonment and release of Nelson Mandela. Rethabile is a business language trainer and consultant.

This selection of Rethabile Masilo includes “People of Stone,” “Scarves” and “Madam in the bedroom.” These three sketch out his esoteric journey from Africa to Europe. We are very pleased to present Rethabile Masilo a second time here in the kinté space, following his “People of Stone.”

::: Aja Monet: A Prayer (YouTube.com)

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_aja_monet.html

There are many an actor turned poet who have won “slam” competitions but the Nuyorican winner Aja Monet is not one of them. Aja Monet has a way with words that is not strategically self-serving cynical, profitable entertainment.

We take a few selections from her many YouTube.com followers. You can experience the voice of Aja Monet right now on her youthful and hopeful myspace.com page.

::: John Taylor Gatto: Outing School

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_john_taylor_gatto0.html

You have no right to complain about what is “wrong with the world” and why “people are so stupid” with such a childish lack of precision and historical knowledge after listening to this simple and straight-forward Canadian interview with the famous educator John Taylor Gatto.

This streaming-audio interview coupled with “Noam Chomsky: Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind” should be enough to remove many of the “mysteries” in modern life. Whether you agree or disagree with the content of these two presentations, the certainty here is that you will be more precise with whatever you plan to talk about outside of the realm trivial conversation. Yes, dude, help can be presumptuous and unwelcome but we’re glad to help.

My insults here would not have been possible without the help of radio free school. Sample their Blog post “Glorious Gatto!” Also, Mr. Gatto preserves the writing that placed him on the world stage in “I Quit, I Think.”

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