Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Showing posts with label pan-africanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pan-africanism. Show all posts
Sunday, September 05, 2010
"it doesn't end with a period, it ends with a comma"
Heru: The Epic African Drama
Labels:
africa,
african,
black,
blacks,
heru,
pan-africanism,
poetry,
spoken word
Friday, June 12, 2009
heru in jamaica
Here is a roughly two hour discussion/interview/talk with Heru (whom we've talked about before) for a Jamaican TV show. Topics include: anti-black violence in Jamaican music, homosexuality in dancehall, the roots of Rastafari and Halie Selassie, the significance of Obama's election, and in general he gives a pretty good articulation of a (not "the") Pan-African outlook on politics, economics, and current events. He has a lot of positive things to say which are worth thinking about. At the same time, it was weird for me to hear his affected "Jamaican" accent. I imagine that he's either making a conscious choice to speak that way because of his involvement in dub and reggae or he's picking it up honestly because of how much time he is spending in the West Indies or with working with Caribbean people. He touches a little on his own religious beliefs but I would be really interested in hearing an indepth discussion of Ausar Auset (if that's the path he is on)
Labels:
caribbean,
garvey,
heru,
homosexuality,
jamaica,
music,
musicians,
obama,
pan-africanism,
rastafari. ausar auset,
violence
Friday, April 25, 2008
whatever happened to the league of the black stone?
I've been curious about the League of the Black Stone for a while now (since before I started to blog) so it is good to finally get an update. But I'm a bit skeptical about how their agenda can survive unless it has an organization to push it forward.
see:
laughing lions
the forbidden dialogues
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