“Making that album was like a cleansing” By: Michiel van Oosterhout
He taught singer Bobby Brown African lullabies and saw Richie Havens perform his anthem ‘Freedom’ at the legendary…
Political poetry as a crime: Inside the surreal trial of Dareen Tatour
Arresting a Palestinian for publishing a political poem is extraordinary. Having to prove at trial that police mistranslated…
Peter Tosh’s resistance against racism, apartheid and settler-colonialism
March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A notable cultural icon in the struggle…
The Collapse of a Titan by Rais Neza Boneza
Near madness, Strangled in the North, the Equator-– Ngbadolite, Ngemena, to the Ubangui border-– In the…
Lyrics: We’ve Had Enough By Michael Jackson
Love was taken from a young lifeAnd no one told her whyHer direction has a dimlightFrom one…
Grandpa, what do you make of the killings in Paris? By Cameron Duodu
I used to hop across the road and bring her home from school.We would have lunch together.I enthused…
House Arrest & Disobedience, Smallberry Press, 2015, London UK. ISBN 978-0993031519
The poems in this book are powerful messages about the cruelty and violence, often hidden and denied,…
AND I STILL RISE–RIP MAYA ANGELOU
R.I.P. legendary author, poet and activist Maya Angelou. “In addition to her well-known autobiographies, Maya Angelou has steadily…