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He published a "roots" Jamaican entertainment magazine called "Cooling Out" from 1989 to 1992. 

The publication featured many renowned reggae artists, some at the very inception of their careers

 

 

Aduku Addae Bio

Aduku Addae, born in 1959, is a Jamaican by birth and an internationalist freedom fighter by choice and conviction. 

As a young boy he roamed the hills of his rural village, Bohemia, located at the southwestern tip of the "Garden Parish," St. Ann, dreaming about Maroons (the reputed ancestors of his paternal grandmother) and fighting many shadow (imaginary) battles against the British Army of colonial times. 

The ultimate "mental assassin" in his daydreams he never lost a single conflict to the enemy, the "Red Coats." This childhood past-time transmuted into 'manful' vocation. The fire of resistance burns fiercely and unremittingly in his gut. His writings bear evidence of this.

Addae's education commenced at home in a tight-nit peasant family and continued through his attendance at both Bohemia and Moravia Primary schools.  He entered high school in 1971 on a "full place scholarship" and gained some enlightenment at Knox College (a school run by the Presbyterian Church) graduating in 1976. After a wonderful year of "ital livity" in the hills of St. Ann he picked up his studies in 1978 at the College of Arts, Science and Technology (C.A.S.T.), recently renamed University of Technology. He departed the campus of this Kingston institution in 1981, at the height of his studies, to take up family rearing and agriculture.

He published a "roots" Jamaican entertainment magazine called "Cooling Out" from 1989 to 1992.  The publication featured many renowned reggae artists, some at the very inception of their careers. He briefly managed/edited a grass-roots publication in San Diego called "The Talking Drum." 

Addae currently resides in the outskirts of San Diego, California, where he writes, poetically and journalistically, for self-clarification and in an earnest effort to light the pathways in the Pan African and working class struggles. His poetry carries the fire of a righteous rage, and the flavor and vital "heartbeat vibration" of his Jamaican Culture. He is the original host and originator of "Expressions Unlimited," a literary forum which features local authors and poets. At present, Addae is organizing The Diamond Literary Festival to be held in San Diego in May 2004.

Contact: Aduku Addae, P.O. Box 120411, San Diego, CA 92112;  Adukuaddae@aol.com

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updated 11 June 2008

 

 

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