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The Horse Eater’s Children

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements i can only go back three generations ten generations is your pantheon of ancestors i am short six generations i can only go forward maybe one day I can go back across to the other side of the graveyard … Continue reading →

Hunger

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements The Babalowo said: if your grandfather is a hustler the son will be a businessman the grandson will be a beggar. I am the hunger refusing to beg on the road I build roads to other places my … Continue reading →

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Radio Golf By August Wilson (pre-production notes)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc (LBP), a small scrappy theater company in Oakland CA, are about to become a part of theater history. They are in production for Radio Golf by August Wilson which will open on December 18, … Continue reading →

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line of old ladies

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements when i line up with the old women healer ladies the sages hags grammies sorceresses witches great granny medicine women when i line up with the old women with stars falling from my hair my robe shall be shot … Continue reading →

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same song

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements they want to know why my song don’t change it is my song it go where I go been through what I been seen what I seen it by default know what I know it is my song how … Continue reading →

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unsaid

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements you can’t be unsaid those who would do you don’t sleep well they are waiting for the sound of you remembering they stay busy erecting walls between you and memory trying to erase the cause without addressing it they … Continue reading →

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arrival

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements here because this is where i find myself carrying bags packed by dead people brimming with faint possibles twisted among rude impossibles bag on my shoulder song in my heart i have come to draw me on impossible tall … Continue reading →

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Zara’s Faith: Someone Must Stand up.

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements The police are at her door. They have come with the news no parent or caretaker wants to hear. Zara learns her grandsons who live with her have had an incident with the police. One is dead the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ayodele nzinga, cat brooks, mark sapir, police terrorism, the lower bottom playaz, theater | Leave a comment

The Ghosts of March 21. A Documentary Film by Sam Stroker: A Review

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements “An interrogation of race, power and justice in the contemporary United States, The Ghosts of March 21 focuses on the death of 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon and the factors that led him to kill four Oakland police officers before losing his … Continue reading →

Posted in film review, non-fiction | Tagged ayodele nzinga, black lives matter, black males, hexsis, hubris, incarceration punishment versus rehablitation, institutional racism, lovelle mixion, militarized police, North American African Perspective, north american africans, oakland ca, sam stroker, slave catchers, violence | Leave a comment

Happy Cul-du-Sac: A personal deconstruction of North American Holidays.

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements What do you celebrate? What does it mean?

Posted in non fiction essay, North American African Perspective, Uncategorized | Tagged ayodele nzinga, holidays, North American African Perspective | Leave a comment

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Tag Archives: ayodele nzinga

The Horse Eater’s Children

Hunger

Radio Golf By August Wilson (pre-production notes)

line of old ladies

same song

unsaid

arrival

Zara’s Faith: Someone Must Stand up.

The Ghosts of March 21. A Documentary Film by Sam Stroker: A Review

Happy Cul-du-Sac: A personal deconstruction of North American Holidays.

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