This is installment nine, celebrating Dr. Jerry Agada’s labor of love, 500 Nigerian Poets. This Aboki Publishers volume, shipping from 43 New Bridge (Otukpo) Road in Makurdi, Benue State, sings with diversity. It remains a rich tapestry of creative vision.

Louis Ochuko Ehwerhemuepha was a student of physics at Delta State University, Abraka, at the time of publication. Born in 1986, he is from Ehwerhe-Agbaro in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Avenue 50 Studio in Highland park might rightly deserve the credit for having (and sharing) the only motion picture recording of Amy Uyematsu reading her poetry on the Internet. Many thanks! We have Amy reading a humorous (and amorous) piece about the great film actor Toshiro Mifune.

From wikipedia.com: “Amy Uyematsu (born 1947) is a Japanese-American poet. Growing up in Southern California, she was torn between her American self and Japanese self, a conflict which has deeply influenced her poetry. She is also a high school math teacher and many of her poems reflect elements of math and quote mathematic equations. She has published three poetry books: Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain, 30 Miles from J-town, and Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).”

Saturday Morning Live (SML) has been called “CKLN’s flagship news program.” Produced by Norman (Otis) Richmond, the show features author/activist Dr.Gerald Horne and Death Row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal weekly.

We present here the March 1, 2008 show, featuring Gerald Horne and Haroon Siddiqui. Topics include: Nigerian elections, the execution of American teens, Air India Flight 182, Olivia Chow of the NDP, the documentary film Africa Unite and more.

“Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007. The primary focus of his work is on the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States. His work features controversial and provocative claims, written in a direct–often confrontational–style.” By the distance of the eternally-pretentious, “objective” tone of this Wikipedia.org article, I can tell that yet again the voice, words and ways of Ward Churchill are not welcome—but, as the title of one of his books declares, there is A Little Matter of Genocide.

The modern sequel of formal and explicit 19^th century North American genocide contains the very successful 20^th-century social experiments of the FBI. In “History of COINTELPRO and the FBI,” a recording produced by Maria Gilardin of tucradio.org, Ward Churchill speaks in honor of Leonard Peltier on the 26th anniversary of the firefight on the Pine Ridge reservation on June 26, 1975. What does Marcus Garvey have to do with the American Indian Movement? Ward Churchill has the mentally healthy threads that bind to build a strong shelter on the open plain of the “main” stream…