Author : Meserette Kentake

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Meserette Kentake is the founder of Kentake Page. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and currently resides in London. Kentake holds a BSc degree in Counselling Psychology, but her passion has always been Afrikan/Black history. Her special "love" interest is the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. Kentake spends her free time reading, researching, and writing up the posts on the site. Contact her at meserette@kentakepage.com

African American history

Will and William West: The doppelgängers that sparked the beginning of fingerprinting in the USA

Meserette KentakeJune 30, 2015June 19, 2020

by Meserette KentakeJune 30, 2015June 19, 20200

Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Their remarkable case...

Poems Poetry on the Page

Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain

Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 24, 2026

by Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 24, 20260

There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain, an anger forged in the fires of...

African American Maafa

Oscar Marion

Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 23, 2020

by Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 23, 20200

[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of General Francis Marion (1732–1795). The general was...

African American Black Firsts Maafa

York: The Black Explorer

Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 12, 2026

by Meserette KentakeJune 29, 2015February 12, 20262

Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and...

Art & Photograpy Black Artist Maafa

NOIR & BLANC: The Art of Storytelling by Joseph Kendy

Meserette KentakeJune 28, 2015January 31, 2026

by Meserette KentakeJune 28, 2015January 31, 20266

This pictorial post features a powerful 40-panel visual narrative by Haitian artist Joseph Kendy titled “Noir & Blanc” (Black & White). The work tells a...

Poetry on the Page

Listen Children by Lucille Clifton

Meserette KentakeJune 10, 2015June 19, 2020

by Meserette KentakeJune 10, 2015June 19, 20200

listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...

African American Famous Aries History Makers

Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man

Meserette KentakeJune 9, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeJune 9, 2015April 15, 20180

“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an...

African American Authors & Poets Black Poet Famous Pisces Playwright Shero

Angelina Weld Grimké

Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015June 12, 2020

by Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015June 12, 20200

Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in...

African Author Authors & Poets

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015June 15, 2015

by Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015June 15, 20150

[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]daobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born in 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best...

Poems Poetry on the Page

When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley

Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015February 20, 2026

by Meserette KentakeMay 4, 2015February 20, 20260

When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads...

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