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Lorna Goodison – Recovering the Lost through the Imagination

March 13, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

It was a treat to attend the talk entitled On the Caribbean Imaginary by Lorna Goodison. The lecture was a part of the New York University Institute of African American Affairs Spring 2016 Lecture Series and coincided with International Women’s Day. Goodison’s poetry has been a staple of the West Indian high school experience. Her words delighted me in and out of the classroom. Her poem Guinea Woman featured in the textbook of my school days. A quick perusal of […]

Categories: Lecture, Uncategorized • Tags: Abeokuta, African Diaspora, african retention, caribbean, colonialism, Guinea Woman, home, I am becoming my mother, Ilesa, imagination, Institute of African American Affairs, International Women's Day, Jamaica, Jamaican, Lecture, Lecture Series, Lorna Goodison, Mariamma Kambon, memory, New York, NYU, poem, poet, poetry, postcolonial, The Caribbean Imaginary, Toni Morrison, Trinidad and Tobago, Wole Soyinka

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Completing the Circle of Diaspora

March 3, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

In a desire to gain knowledge of the part of myself that existed prior to colonialism and that survived in spite of it, I have spent years purposefully examining the identifiable markers of Africa within Trinbagonian culture. Dr. Robert Farris Thompson’s work was bound to enter my intellectual repartee sooner or later. His preeminent scholarly work, Flash of the Spirit, had unlocked the meaning in familiar symbols and rituals for me. Thompson describes the “sacred art of the Yoruba in […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: African Diaspora, african drums, african retention, alex lasalle, amma mcken, Baba Neil Clarke, C. Daniel Dawson, caribbean, CCCADI, city college, cuba, Elizabeth Yeampierre, flash of the spirit, Harlem, Iyesa Drum ensemble, karla moore, Lumumba bandele, Mariamma Kambon, marta moreno vega, New York, ogun, orisha, photography, resistance, robert farris thompson, roman diaz, Sheriden booker, something positive, Trinidad and Tobago

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Omen/ He Dances in the Courtyard of the Impertinent

November 26, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

Water by the side of fire at the center of the sky A strange thing, on the road to Teji Oku He strikes a stone in the forest, stone bleeds blood He carries a heavy stone upon his head without a cushion. Shango splits the wall with his falling thunderbolt. He makes a detour in telegraphic wire Leopard of the flaming eyes Lord who wears the sawtooth – bordered cloth of returning ancestors (egun) Storm on the edge of a […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: abolition, african culture, african retention, caribbean, cornell university, Exhibition, he dances in the courtyard of the impertinent, installation, justice, liberation theology, Mariamma Kambon, mass incarceration, omen, orisha, politicized theology, prison industrial complex, rebellion, resistance, shango, slavery, survival

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