art & pics above, by me.
Women's History Month, i'm looking forward to the programs, Can I get a bit of Zora N H? mixed with some Ella & Nina Simone, Areatha ? a pinch of Ms. Tubman, Queen Mother Yaa Asantewa & Queen Nanny, with Ms. Sojourner Truth & the Honorable Ms. Shirley Chisholm, poetry of Maya A., Ursula R. & Nikki G., a drop of Ndambi, Sparlha Swa, Oumou S., Amel L.& Jill Scott mixed with the indominable spirit spirit of my Mother, Grandmothers & Elders to inspire me forever ...? i have everything i'll ever need.~~~ Enjoy this Month!
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a beautiful poem - making love in lotus pose by afua cooper http://www.afuacooper.com/poetry.html
one from benjamin zephaniah - vegan delight - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1585.html
also from this past weekend's event - Caribbean Women’s Literary Celebration @ the Enoch Pratt
author Nalo Hopkinson's really nice page - http://www.sff.net/people/nalo/
a really talented artist - nakazzi hutchinson - http://www.impactfolios.com/nakazzi/
THA ART OF LOVE & STRUGGLE - http://www.multo.com/vlog/2007/03/08/the-art-of-love-struggle-screening/
African Women: The Necessity of Struggle - http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=3410
More on topic - http://www.rootswomen.com/articles/developingwoman.html
pan-african events md/wash. dc http://www.ag-east.org/community/Community.htm
Rap music's VEGETARIANS - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2001964629_hiphopvegan25.html
haki madhubuti, activist, editor, vegetarian - http://www.blackpressusa.com/news/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=National+News&NewsID=2670
benjamin zephaniah - activist, vegetarian poet- http://www.ireggae.com/zephaniah.htm
http://www.viva.org.uk/celebs/benjamin.html
mutabaruka, activist, poet, vegetarian http://www.blackvegetarians.org/features/mutabaruka.htm
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links
a very powerful & interesting piece - Study Black Women who Love Black Men Well"
http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20735
the nile in philly [a great place] - http://www.thenilepa.com/articles.php
MAKING STRIDES ! Stats on Women in America in 2007 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-22-2007/0004532807&EDATE=
a good article on Queen Omega fr. Barbados Nation http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/306164382236724.php
a good page for Events - http://www.rastaites.com/events/familyevents.htm
shopping [spring]
fun photo shower curtains w/ an urban kick - http://www.izolashower.com/venice2.html
for your bare walls - http://www.flockphotography.com/
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good articles for when traveling with Your Baby
http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/taking-baby-abroad.html
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/eclectic/family/expert/first_trip4.htm
http://www.flyingwithkids.com/best_travel_tips.htm & here http://www.onestepahead.com/articles/3/8/391956.html
BLACK MILITARY WORLD - http://www.blackmilitaryworld.com/
Yemanja online - http://www.yemanjaonline.com/ [ just the name, makes me wanna sing marisa monte homage to]
fascinating articles on the ishango bone [ found in zaire] & african prehistoric mathematics between 6000 - 9000 years old - http://www.naturalsciences.be/museum/halls/prehist/ishango/noflash/bone & http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IshangoBone.html & http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html more http://people.bath.ac.uk/ma2jc/prehistoric.html & http://etopia.sintlucas.be/3.14/Ishango_meeting/
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sports
Sticky Wicket's Site - http://www.stickiewicket.com/worldcup_schedule.phpIt's
remie bourke - surinam martial arts - http://www.remieburke.com/Contact.html - http://www.surinamstars.com/Remie%20Burke.html
barbados martial arts venues - http://www.umaabarbados.com/
Wynton M's new one form the Plantation to the Penitentiary - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7813667
dezarie - roots music stcroix - http://www.dezarie.com/
dede saint prix - http://www.ddsaintprix.com/
koffi olomide [soukous] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldBH_bho2zQ
gilberto gil, - i know i posted abut him on this blog before -- He has a new album out !
check it out here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7650054
other article on Gil, " minister of cool" - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1066490,00.html
http://music.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1927711,00.html
[a bajan classic] by rupee - tempted to touch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR0PfG-LDM
Everytime i hear it, i gotta smile. "ding ding ding!" a snippet here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzZ7SoTKM8
a refresher course alison's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAHo1qS9pI
saucydenise b' s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgKEslni54g&mode=related&search=
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books
african fractals - http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/afractal/afbook.htm
black indians - http://faculty.smu.edu/twalker/1992.htm
a good list of books on african mathmatics http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_28.html
for children , i have to get this one ,- the golden oware counters - by J. O. de Graft Hanson
http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Literature
other - www.ghanaweb.com http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/timeline.php
a refresher course in Jamaican versions of Anansi stories & More online - http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/index.htm#idx
300 years of Caribbean Archives History - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/caribbean-identities.htm
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cinema
quilombo country [ afro / brazilian culture, maroons] http://www.quilombofilm.com/
the president has aids? [haitian movie - Le President a t-il lesida'] - http://www.belfim.com/movies.php/69
Ezra [a movie about a child soldier, in africa] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/networkafrica/news/story/2007/02/070225_fespaco2007.shtml
& here http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/03/05/fespaco-africa-prize.html
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unti next entry, walk good !
