Colin Kaepernick
Racism and all, the United States has offered a blissful transformation to millions of people. Since Mohamed Ali, it hasn't been common for mainstream athletes to take a controversial stand for civil rights. Collin Kaepernick's…
Month: September 2016
The Enduring Effort to Instill Fear in Your Psyche
The current protests against police brutality are at a stalemate. It's the notion of who the law commands to yield to whom. The police are a force. Unlike the military's capacity to establish international raids,…
Grenada (The Introduction)
I have a lot to learn about the origin of this great civilization. Therefore I may not be the most prudent narrator of the account of an island in the Caribbean. I will approach this…
My Top 10 Influences in Literary & Publishing Pt. 3
Kalu Abosi I went through a phase when I read almost everything I could get my hands on. During that time, I found a book by a Nigerian writer. He told a fascinating tale on…
My Top 10 Influences in Literary & Publishing Pt. 2
William Shakespeare The first time I learned about Shakespeare, I was at Christ the King College in Bo, Sierra Leone. I had already sung and acted in a few church plays. Before that time, the…
My Top 10 Influences in Literary & Publishing Pt. 1
A wise woman once told me, "you're who you say you are." That was at a time when I had issues with my identity. Born in Sierra Leone but raised in Liberia until adolescence, and attended…
Emancipation & Repatriation
For the most part, the United States, Great Britain, and France enslaved West Africans. Religious groups and abolitionists launched demonstrations charging that slavery was a crime against humanity. That tumultuous historical moment ended after the…
