i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage is an art Created by the serious, enjoyed by the mature Watered with...
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. I would sing a...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in...
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have...
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 of our young and engraved upon...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
