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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
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