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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Warrior Song by Djehuti Wa Kamau
Rey Bowen critiques Warrior Song, which analyzes how black music has been appropriated by white power structures not only to entertain the white masses but also as a weapon to disempower black communities.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Saving Africa by John Hollaway
Rey Bowen reviews the theories of a white Zimbabwean on how Africa can be saved from poverty, which he controversially suggests is by Africans discarding their indigenous traditions in favour of western values...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Rage Within by Trevor Hercules - Exclusive Interview
Jason Bissessur talks to Trevor Hercules about his new book: Rage Within which tells his life story about personal transformation and self discovery...
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
Historian to launch book in 2007 highlighting Leyton links to slavery
To mark 2007's bicentenary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade since 1807, Art Historian Peter Ashan is to launch a book in March entitled Waltham Forest, The Slave Trade and its Legacy…
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
Other People’s Children: cultural conflict in the classroom, is an highly accessible study that not only critiques current practise but provides solutions for all trainee teachers...
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Third Mind by Joe Mintsa
Rey Bowen deconstructs Mintsa's attempt at analysing the global position of black Africans in the world today and his solutions for their transformation, but believes that ill-defined arguments and a lack of context make it a poor effort.
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
Their ‘pharaoh’ of Ancient Egyptian studies, Cheikh Anta Diop, proved with science that indigenous black Africans from the African continent produced the Ancient Egyptian civilization...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
What the Deejay Said: A Critique From The Street by Dr Lez Henry
Dr Lez Henry's ground-breaking new book charts the history of reggae dancehall culture in the UK as the hidden voice of the black experience in London. In doing so it challenges the mainstream view of black youth in seventies and eighties Britain.
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
Donna Daley Clarke rekindles memories in Lazy Eye
Lazy Eye by Donna Daley - Clarke tells how the life of a young black family growing up in the seventies was torn apart by a violent crime committed by the father, Sonny.
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
This collection of essays allowing a more thorough investigation of the hurricane from the pens of thirteen black intellectuals with varying perspectives but all from an African American perspective...
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