news from kintespace.com ::: 1/28/2009
Contents:
- ::: Hauwa M. Sambo: Words ::: Pete Chatmon: 7 Questions from Invisible Woman ::: Gerald Horne: Red Seas
::: Hauwa M. Sambo: Words
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These three selections by Hauwa Mohammad Sambo are taken from The Genesis and Other Poems, a Kaduna Nigeria publication by Informart Publishers.
Hauwa Mohammad Sambo was educated at Queen Amina College, Kaduna, and at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, where she obtained a degree in English. Her poems have been appearing in various newspapers in Nigeria since 1987. A member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), her play, Disaster in the House, was also published in 1996 under the Emerging Talents series.
::: Pete Chatmon: 7 Questions from Invisible Woman
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Quite by accident I happened upon a movie called Premium while channel surfing on cable. It was described as a film in the vein of Hollywood Shuffle. I didn’t really get that, the only thing that seemed to be a commonality was that the central character was a struggling Black actor going through numerous shenanigans. What it was however, was a well made, well directed, well written, and well acted surprise of a film.
It made me investigate further, and I found out that a dude named Pete Chatmon wrote, directed, and produced it. I posted about it and called him “kind of a hottie” (which he called me out on). The truth is, he is very much a hottie. Not just because of looks, but he has the talent, drive, and ambition that makes me exhausted just reading about his activities. He is a true case study on what to do to make it, not just in film, but in life. The fact that he is an obvious cocktail lover with amazing sartorial sensibility and a true New-York-style “keeping it real” swagger is just the icing on a very delicious 7-layer cake for me. Check out his views on things; this man is gonna be huge—East Coast, stand up!
::: Gerald Horne: Red Seas
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This 2005 Building Bridges interview of Dr. Gerald Horne delves into the subject of his groundbreaking book, Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. The assertion here is that the legacy of Ferdinand Smith is a worthy successor to the organizing efforts of Marcus Garvey—this assertion alone should make such a comprehensive book about Ferdinand Smith long overdue.
In this interview Horne inspires us to ask a question that is (to me) now obvious, Why are labor movements, organizing on an international scale, behind what we come to expect from multi-national corporations? In this age of the Internet and the so-called “social network,” why are international grass-roots movements so novel?