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Sean Jacobs, Founder-Editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School.
An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.
The Bronx boasts 43,000 African immigrants - up from 25,000 in 2000 - and nearly 20,000 are from Ghana, according to census reports. Many others are Mandingo, West Africans who are primarily from Senegal, Gambia and Guinea. "Mandingo speakers are the fastest-growing African immigrant community in the Bronx," said [Mark] Naison [professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University]. "I bet at least 15 mosques have opened here in the past 15 years, founded by Muslims from Mali, Senegal, Gambia and Togo." Fordham's Twi course was widely reported on the radio and television news in Ghana last year ... ]Mike Mohigh, a Fordham student from Ghana] said he expects demand for the course to grow. "When I take the bus and subway, everywhere I go I hear people speaking Twi," he said. [Fordham sociology Prof. Bernard Hayford, who teaches Twi]says the Bronx and Ghana are now so closely linked that a suburban housing development near Accra, the African country's capital, is named after the borough.
The main reaction to Palin is to mock her, but the problem is someone like her got those close to the most powerful office globally. That should scare us.
I have a novel that I can write ... It’s about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive ... I have everything except a suitable conclusion.
It's also worth reading Greg Tate's obituary of Gil Scott Heron here.
