One of my poems has been featured in the latest Botsotso magazine! You can’t find the content online, so I wanna share the poem with you this way. It is one of my favourite performance pieces & I haven’t linked to it in an earlier post on my poetry yet so here it is! Two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘black issues’
A Blak Fairy Tale
Posted in Black knowledge, I write what I like, Poetry, Sounds & Syllables, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged black issues, botsotso, chantal-fleur sandjon, cinn sandjon, Poetry on 11 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is This Cinema Chair Electric Or What?
Posted in Black knowledge, I write what I like, tagged bell hooks, black issues, consciousness, empowerment, mainstream on 11 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consciousness in all spheres of life is a one-way road where you can reverse a couple of meters but you can’t entirely go back once you entered it. Evolving consciousness or awareness might feel depriving at times. You can’t just gulp down that ice cream anymore without being aware of the reasons for your cravings [...]
The destruction of diet
Posted in Black knowledge, Food for Thought: Quotes, Facts, Figures, I write what I like, Our Bodies, Our Temples, tagged black issues, black veganism, food, neo-colonialism on 10 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the weapons of colonialism and genocide is the destruction of diet. The way that this is done is by adapting the ‘conquered’ to the S.A.D. (standard american diet). So even before we promote a plant-centric diet the first question we have to ask is a diet derived from Europeans appropriate for Original People. [...]
Black Germania gets together
Posted in Black Germania, I write what I like, Music, Once every blue moon: Events, Sounds & Syllables, tagged afro-german, black issues, bundestreffen, germany, isd, music, weep not child on 29 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In about ten days it is time for the annual highlight of our social schedules here in Black Germania: The Bundestreffen of the Initiative Schwarze in Deutschland ISD (Organisation of Blacks in Germany) offers a weekend long get-away from an everyday life of being the exotic, the other or the cool black kiddo in a [...]
Black people, white sugar
Posted in Black knowledge, Food for Thought: Quotes, Facts, Figures, I write what I like, Our Bodies, Our Temples, tagged black issues, dr. laila o. afrika, food, food addictions, health on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“My greatest challenge is getting Black people off white sugar. This has been an on-going struggle for 35 years and I’m losing.” Dr. Laila O. Afrika in: Zakhah “The Joy of Living Live”
Madiba turns 90! Diva in Berlin & Junkie in London
Posted in Azania from a street-level window, Black Germania, Commenting the current, I write what I like, Music, Once every blue moon: Events, Sounds & Syllables, tagged berlin, black issues, events, germany, music, nelson mandela, simphiwe dana, south africa on 12 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Think what you want about Mandela & the brand his name has become, honouring this man is part of honouring our elders from my perspective. He is part of the ones who walked before us, who paved the way & still leave mighty footprints. Simphiwe Dana rocking Berlin on Mandela Festival There’ll be a huge [...]
The Black Sinatra Manga Singer, Say What?
Posted in Commenting the current, I write what I like, Music, Sounds & Syllables, tagged black issues, enka, japan, jero, music, stereotypes on 4 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was one of the moments where I caught myself flat-footed, “boxing” this brother right away. Always a good experience to meet some of your very own stereotypes & kick them in the butt! Black Man & Japanese Country Music - how? Enka lyrics, as in Portuguese Fado, usually are about the themes of love and loss, loneliness, enduring hardships, [...]
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